Distrustful on principle, the detective critic cannot subscribe to such a simplistic view. Although the existence of a huge dog is attested to in the final scene, with several witnesses present, the dog’s responsibility for the various deaths is not at all as obvious as Holmes seems to think. An ...
The act of reading is disassociated from the material book; the important thing is the encounter, which might just as easily involve an immaterial object. Besides actually reading a book, there is, after all, another way to develop quite a clear sense of its contents: we can read or listen to wha...