In the Introduction to the Penguin Edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Christopher Frayling identifies the article by James and John Kissane as a useful secondary source.
1) In your own words and in formal English, provide a summary of the main arguments in “Sherlock Holmes and the Ritual of Reason” (two or three paragraphs).
2) Using the novel as well as this secondary source, provide further textual illustrations supporting the article’s argument. Alternatively, counter or modify the argument by examining aspects of the novel that test Holmes’s limits as the master-rationalist (two or three paragraphs)