hound of the baskervilles ch. 5-6 discussion post
This week, hotel privacy was awful in Victorian London, Sir Henry Baskerville is still shoeless, and Watson is a detective now.
Home, James, and don't spare the horses!
1. Holmes didn't even have to bribe the guy behind the desk at the hotel before he sung like a canary. Indicative of an improved interrogation technique on Holmes' part, or someone who you just really shouldn't tell your secrets to?
2. A lot of modern detective mysteries have the bad guy impersonate one of the good guys, and this may well be the first example - but do you think it's effective? Do you think it was clever of the man to do so? Speculations on why he might have done so?
3. What do you think of the transition between town and country? Does it feel a little like going down a rabbit hole, or does it seem not to be much different from before?
4. Does there being a violent convict on the loose to up the terror level work, do you think? Or does it break the flow of the previously slow-building tension?
5. Cliffhanger! Love or hate? Curious about the sobbing woman? Want to see the dog already?
Bonus: The journey was a swift and pleasant one, and I spent it in making the more intimate acquaintance of my two companions and in playing with Dr. Mortimer’s spaniel.
So that's what they were calling it back then?
Home, James, and don't spare the horses!
1. Holmes didn't even have to bribe the guy behind the desk at the hotel before he sung like a canary. Indicative of an improved interrogation technique on Holmes' part, or someone who you just really shouldn't tell your secrets to?
2. A lot of modern detective mysteries have the bad guy impersonate one of the good guys, and this may well be the first example - but do you think it's effective? Do you think it was clever of the man to do so? Speculations on why he might have done so?
3. What do you think of the transition between town and country? Does it feel a little like going down a rabbit hole, or does it seem not to be much different from before?
4. Does there being a violent convict on the loose to up the terror level work, do you think? Or does it break the flow of the previously slow-building tension?
5. Cliffhanger! Love or hate? Curious about the sobbing woman? Want to see the dog already?
Bonus: The journey was a swift and pleasant one, and I spent it in making the more intimate acquaintance of my two companions and in playing with Dr. Mortimer’s spaniel.
So that's what they were calling it back then?