The Case of the Baskerville Hound

French philologist and literary critic Pierre Bayard—author of monographs translated into Russian, including 'How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read' and 'Titanic Will Sink'—proposes in his essay to reopen the story of Sherlock Holmes' adventures on the Dartmoor moors. His goal is to justify the wrongly accused Stapleton and find the real murderer. This approach allows Bayard both to comment on the phenomenon of the Great Detective and to present his extraordinary reflections on the relationship between the world of books and reality.