The Hound of the Baskervilles - Crime Fiction

  Order Description     In Chapter 15 of The Hound of the Baskervilles Sherlock Holmes remarks to Dr Watson that "The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it". What is the relationship between reason and the supernatural and irrational in The Hound of the Baskervilles and how adequate is the description of Holmes's 'methods' of detection in the above passage?