Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
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 attentive examination of the three scenes in which it is supposed to have committed its murders should arouse our suspicion. Let us consider these scenes calmly, one by one, trying to dispel the fantastic atmosphere in which the story tries to immerse us and keeping to the facts alone. The circumstances of Sir Charles Baskerville’s death do indeed suggest that an extremely large dog has been on the scene. It is true that for most of our story, our only evidence of the dog’s existence is the testimony of Dr. Mortimer, but the dog will indeed appear in the final scene of the novel. It is not unlikely, then, that it was also at the scene of Sir Charles’s death.
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