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Here’s a book to read if you want to know what really led Jack Stapleton (of the Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles) to kill his uncle Sir Charles Baskerville.

Posted: 27-Mar-2025

If the The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of your favorite novels, you surely remember its sinister, sordid end, don’t you? It was an inside job traced to Jack Stapleton (alias Rodger Baskerville II). Jack proved to be the knave who killed his own uncle, Sir Charles Baskerville, in an attempt to inherit Baskerville's estate.

But what was Jack’s motive? Was he just an indolent aristocrat who didn’t want to work for a living, preferring instead to live on inherited riches? Did he do it suddenly, without warning or out of desperation, after all attempts to get his share by just means had failed?

Read this book to find out.

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Seeking success, what to do when you find yourself stuck in the ‘carrot at the end of the stick’ illuson of toxic positivity.

Posted: 13-Mar-2025

You aren’t successful, but want to be. In your struggles, how far will the rant “Be positive!,” “Be positive!?” take you? The self-help industry wants you to believe that being positive, even more positive, unwaveringly positive, etc. will see you through in some time. No, it won’t, this author (who prefers to keep anonymous) says! Using satire on the life of a “Mr Positive,” he debunks the myth of excessive positivity and exposes the emptiness, and pain inside when it turns toxic. You need to accept life with its flaws, limitations, ups, and downs, not force a facade of infallibility by being toxically positive.

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