Reading notes: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'

This is another "yep, something that is supposed to be good is in fact good" book... ...But I think it'll be a little while before I pick up another Sherlock Holmes book. The characters, or at least the characters of Holmes and Watson, hold up wonderfully well. (I wonder if mystery plots decay a bit faster than we generally think. I'd conjecture that, although one standard view is that these plots…