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This Is Me: A 71-year-old Dreamer
I'm a 71-year-old retired government employee trying to realize his life-long dream of becoming a published writer. I returned to college at the age of 65 and obtained a Masters Degree in English. Writing literary essays and maybe a book review or two is what I'm trying to do. My special interest is detective/crime fiction, especial such fiction written by Black American writers.

I'm reading my way through my library of detective/crime novels by Black writers in alphabetical order. Each month, I post a semi-critical essay on the novel in my blog (WWW.LAWILLIS.BLOGSPOT.COM).

Every three months, I edit the newsletter for my high school class of 1954.

I spend all the unlimited spare time I have reading and writing.

Arts & Humanities > British Literature Book reviews: The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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In the greatest of the four novels his creator Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, Sherlock Holmes faces a formidable adversary in the legend of a huge, fearsome beast resembling a large dog prowling the forbidding and dangerous moor near Baskerville Hall. However, for him, the real "foe" against whom he pits his analytic genius in The Hound of Baskervilles is all too human. The case of the Hound, as recorded by Dr. John Watson, Holmes's devoted friend and chronicler of his sleuthing adventures, begins in Holmes's office at 221 Baker Street. James Mortimer, a country doctor, requests Holmes's advice...

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