Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong

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| name = Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong

| title_orig = [https://books.google.com/books?id=ljwfAQAAIAAJ&q=%22+L%27affaire+du+Chien+des+Baskerville%22 L'affaire du Chien des Baskerville]

| translator = Charlotte Mandell

| image = Holmeswaswrong bookcover.jpg

| caption = First U.S. edition cover

| author = Pierre Bayard

| language = French

| country = France

| genre = Literary criticism

| publisher = [http://www.bloomsburyusa.com/books/catalog/sherlock_holmes_was_wrong_hc_050 Bloomsbury USA] (English translation)

| pub_date =

| english_pub_date = November 2008

| pages = 208

| isbn = 978-1-59691-605-0

| dewey= 823.912 22

| congress= PR4622.H63 B3913 2008

| oclc = 216941820

}}

Sherlock Holmes was Wrong: Re-opening the Case of the "Hound of the Baskervilles" is a 2007 book by French professor of literature, psychoanalyst, and author Pierre Bayard.

By re-examining the clues and interpreting them in the context in which Arthur Conan Doyle's book The Hound of the Baskervilles was conceived and written, Bayard clears the hound of all wrongdoing and argues that the actual murderer got away with the crime completely unsuspected by Sherlock Holmes—not to mention by the numerous readers of the story over the past century and even, in a sense, by the author himself.

The book was originally written in French.[http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/stevereads/2009/01/sherlock-holmes-was-wrong/ Sherlock Holmes was Wrong! | stevereads – Open Letters Monthly]