The hound of the Baskervilles

Description

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set in 1889 largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Holmes and Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival. One of the most famous stories ever written, in 2003, the book was listed as number 128 of 200 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel". In 1999, a poll of "Sherlockians" ranked it as the best of the four Holmes novels.

First Sentence

Mr Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he stayed up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

Description

The country doctor had come to 221B Baker Street, the famous lodgings of Sherlock Holmes, with an eerie tale— the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the devil-beast that haunted the Ionély moors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home. The tale warned the descendants of that ancient family never to venture out on the moor "in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted." But one of the most recent Baskervilles, Sir Charles, was now dead—and the footprints ofa giant hound had been found near .hii body. Would the new Ileir of the Ba?kervill€s.tneet thé same dreadful fate? Sherlock Holmes and his fåiih/ul friend, Dr. Watson, are ffZ•ed with their most terrifying cåse in this wonderful classic of masterful detection bone-chilling suspense.

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• Fiction

Other Editions

• The hound of the BaskervillesMass Market PaperbackSignet Classic2001-01-01
• The Hound of the BaskervillesHardcoverWhitman Publishing Company1968-01-01
• El Sabueso de los BaskervillePaperbackEditorial Andres Bello1996-01-01
• The Hound of the BaskervilleseBookNuVision Publications2004-01-01
• The Hound of the Baskervilles [Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection #5]eBookFictionwise, Inc.2004-01-01
• The Hound of the BaskervilleseBookeBooksLib2005-01-01