Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong
Reopening the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles

Per la serie: se mia nonna avesse le ruote... Un libro di apprezzabile cazzeggio intellettuale sui personaggi letterari e su quelli della letteratura gialla in particolare. E se Sherlock avesse sbagliato l'indagine!? E se Conan Doyle avesse volutamente seminato indizi per la vera soluzione del suo c......more

With such an ambitious, and in some aspects arrogant, title Pierre Bayard was always going to have to write a very convincing analysis. Which in my opinion he managed to do while also throwing in a hint of literary criticism of a type I had not paid attention to as of yet. And while such things appe......more

Police criticism is now my thing! I will have to use whodunnit approach to texts! And I will sure have to read the one about Ackroyd.........more

I can't quite decide if this is a perfect example of tongue-in-cheek meta-criticism, or a nutty rereading padded with chapters of justification that essentially sum up to "It's my opinion, so it can't be wrong." I suggest skipping to the last chapter and just enjoying Bayard's reworking of the plot,......more

I did it! I had guessed the murderer before I read the book!......more