Popular detective fiction has tended to maintain and challenge the traditional conventions of the established genre for its own contextual purpose. Generations hold “The Hounds of Baskerville” by Arthur Doyles. As one of the most endearing classics, revolving around the brilliant deductions of the enigmatic Sherlock Holmes, establishing a series of conventions that were to serve as a catalyst for future writers, Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" presents a more liberal. , a postmodern approach that anchors itself in contemporary consciousness due to the manipulations of its main conventional concerns, particularly the detective hero and the riddle of clues. In doing so, both texts retain the fundamental reflections of their societal context in which they were written. Sherlock Holmes emerges from “The Hounds of Baskerville,” through which Holmesian ratiocination is denoted by an admiring narrator and establishes the intellectual fascination exercised by the detective. Operating outside the mainstream of policing, the eccentric detective whose methods can be expressed verbally as: "and admiring the rapid deductions, as quick as intuitions, and yet always based on a logical basis", in which the comparisons The contrasting patterns serve as a reflection of late Victorian ideals that valued science and rational deductions from the problems at hand. This stands as a beacon of Holmes’ clear superiority in an age of revolution and critical thinking. The detective's bohemian lifestyle, aptly described by Watson as "erratic and dysfunctional" and his dedication to the pursuit of "metaphorically solving the problems before him". portray Holmes as a subversive outsider of the harsh era, but also reflects...... middle of paper...... the era reflecting the social anxiety of never knowing when they were being watched. The window acts as a frame, bordering the people within it and symbolizes an entry into the private lives of most. Combined with Jeffries' indirect rhetoric to the audience when he states, "I wonder if it is ethical to look at a man with binoculars and a long lens", further reflecting on the morally strict McCarthyist era in a context post-war dynamics. As such, despite given the timeless parameters of the crime archetype, the genre is flexible enough to define both the perpetrator and their context. The integration of key tropes, particularly the detective hero and the enigma into their respective stories, builds on the premises of the detective genre and reinforces the contextual concerns of Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and Hitchock's Rear Window.