The Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles

French philologist and literary critic Pierre Bayard—author of the monographs translated into Russian as “How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read” and “‘Titanic’ Will Sink”—invites readers in his essay to rediscover the story of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures on the Dartmoor moors, seeking to exonerate the falsely accused Stapleton and identify the real killer. This approach allows Bayard both to reflect on the phenomenon of the Great Detective and to present his unconventional insights into the relationship between the world of literature and reality.