The Hound of the Baskervilles to see the opera "Les Huguenots" starring Jean de Reszke. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote this story shortly after returning to his home Undershaw from South Africa, where he had worked as a volunteer physician at the Langman Field Hospital in Bloemfontein at the time of the Second Boer War. Conan Doyle had not written about Sherlock Holmes in eight years, having killed off the character in the 1893 story "The Final Problem". Although "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is set before the latter events, two years later Conan Doyle would bring Holmes back for good, explaining in "The Adventure
The Murder on the Links week passes which does not bring a 'detective' story from one quarter or another, and several of the popular magazines rely mainly on that commodity. Among the later cultivators of this anything but lonely furrow the name of Agatha Christie is well in the front. If she has not the touch of artistry which made "The Speckled Band" and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" things of real horror, she has an unusual gift of mechanical complication." The reviewer went on to compare the novel with "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" which they called, "a remarkable piece of work" but warned