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Excidiar t1_j61d26g wrote

Reply to comment by I_am_1E27 in "Hounds of Baskervilles" question [Spoilers] by ricarleite2

In universe, my reasoning is that he hoped that Sir Henry died out of sheer fear, or that he got actually killed by the dog in such a way that can't be tracked back to him. You know what they say? Small Town, Big Hell. Ultimately, he saw a chance of not getting directly involved and took it.

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ricarleite2 OP t1_j61djba wrote

But it's risky as hell, he had witnesses of his wife, the caretaker of the dog while he was playing detective and stealing footwear wearing a fake beard in London for no fucking reason, and the odds of it failing were huge. Am I the only one who got possessed by Scott Evil's soul and thought "Just fucking shoot him!"?

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Painting_Agency t1_j62j506 wrote

> stealing footwear wearing a fake beard in London for no fucking reason

The answer is "because Doyle was an author who wrote about potboiler shit like fake spectral dogs and fake-beard-wearing shoe thieves (and people pretending to be scabby beggars and geese eating jewels), not guys who just flat out gank their enemies"... a notable exception being Col. Moran who just ganked his enemies.

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abnrib t1_j62tysh wrote

>a notable exception being Col. Moran who just ganked his enemies.

But in an interesting and hard to immediately deduce way

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