The Walking Stick
Doctor Mortimer's walking stick is the first object that appears in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Holmes uses it to test Watson's skills at deduction, in which you make conclusions about something...
The Hound of the Baskervilles
When Doctor Mortimer presents Holmes with his battered manuscript of the story of the Hound of Baskervilles, we are immediately hooked. This legend has it all: family curses, punishment of wrongdoi...
The Mire
Stapleton is the one who introduces us to the (fictional) bog called the Grimpen Mire. The ground is deeply unstable underfoot. As Stapleton first points it out to Watson, they see a pony trying to...
Light and Darkness
This one's a pretty popular metaphor in literature, and we find it everywhere in this novel. We all know that light usually represents reason, safety, happiness, and hope. And darkness means fear,...