The Hound of the Baskervilles and Incident Response

Postmortems on the Moor

Arthur Conan Doyle · 20 June 2026

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes until PagerDuty rings.”

A fogbound guide to incident response, escalation, postmortems, and the importance of distinguishing genuine system failures from hereditary panic and poorly configured monitoring.

Contents

1. Chapter 1: The Alert on the Moor
2. Chapter 2: Sir Henry Ignores the Runbook
3. Chapter 3: Holmes Correlates the Metrics
4. Chapter 4: A Blameless Postmortem at Baskerville Hall

Published by Austenpunk, the distinguished imprint for engineers who believe that every production incident would be improved by a stronger sense of narrative irony.

This essential volume combines literary feeling, technical anxiety, and just enough documentation to suggest that somebody once understood the system.