Translations

[Fio]

How many translation has there been of The Hound of the Baskerville?

Does anyone have any obscure fairly unknown facts about the book or Arthur Conan Doyle.

 

Thank you.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Hello, Fio -- welcome to Sherlock Forum!   

Afraid I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable to know any obscure facts, but perhaps some other forum members do.

One thing you might find interesting, though, is that Baskervilles was published while Holmes was "dead."  Doyle had gotten tired of writing detective stories, and so killed him off in "The Final Problem" (1893), but the publishers kept hounding him (so to speak) for more Holmes stories, so he finally obliged them with "Baskervilles" (1901), which had supposedly taken place earlier, while Holmes was still alive.  But the publishers still kept after him for more, so he finally revealed in "The Empty House" (1903) that Holmes hadn't died after all, he'd merely been traveling for ten years.