Prose Study: English and English Literature Coursework.
Conan Doyle developed the Detective Fiction genre into short stories which were called ‘pot-boilers’. These were not written for literal context; Doyle only wrote them for earning money. ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ was then written in 1902 at the end of the Victorian era. But Doyle was not the first; the first detective fiction story was written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841. It was called ‘The Murders in the Rue Rogue’. Doyle then developed the genre into the ‘pot-boilers’.
The Detective fiction genre appealed to the public because in 1829 the Metropolitan Police force were newly established and there was a lot of crime. The high profile case of Jack the Ripper was going on in late 1888. But reading about Holmes suggested that crimes could be solved.