The more successful mystery authors like Arthur Conan-Doyle favour this type of setting (he used a large forbidding house' setting for other stories, such as "Hound of the Baskervilles-). ... Watson asks the questions that the reader wants to hear such as "what can it mean?... - Through the use of these questions the writer manages to engage the reader in the story. Whereas Hastings does not ask these questions and he does little more than to just tell the story. ...

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