a study in scarlet the hound of the baskervilles

But the Holmes we meet in the 1887 novel is notably different from the Holmes of the 1902 novel. When “The Hound of the Baskervilles” came out, readers waited outside the offices of The Strand Magazine, where the novel appeared serially, and reportedly offered bribes for advance copies. The latter is the one that came nearly a decade after Conan Doyle’s apparent killing off of Holmes. The former is the novel that introduced the scientific detective Holmes to the world. Two Holmes novels receive special attention in the show: “ A Study in Scarlet” (1887) and “ The Hound of the Baskervilles” (1902). There are also handwritten manuscript pages and a pirated copy of “ The Sign of the Four,” which Conan Doyle apparently signed, despite loathing the pirating practice. There are a number of Arthur Conan Doyle’s letters an “idea book” in which he jotted notes for possible future stories and a never-before-displayed speech, written by hand, in which Conan Doyle talks about why he killed off Holmes. Miranker, a former executive at Apple, who has been buying all manner of things Holmesian since 1977. It features a proper Baker Street-number of items from the collection of Glen S. On January 12th, an exhibit called “Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects” opened there. The Grolier Club, a private society for bibliophiles on the Upper East Side, with its marble foyer and dark wood-panelled gallery, would be a fine stage for a nineteenth-century fictional murder, perhaps done in the library with a candlestick, most certainly involving a will.

A study in scarlet the hound of the baskervilles