The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

Original en 59082 words First published 1902 United Kingdom

The greatest of the Sherlock Holmes novels, serialized in 1901-02. On Dartmoor, Sir Charles Baskerville dies of apparent heart failure on the yew alley — with the prints of a gigantic hound nearby, and an old family legend of a spectral dog avenging a crime. Holmes and Watson, separated for much of the case on the fog-bound moor, face the brilliant Gothic atmosphere of the Grimpen Mire, the escaped convict, and a villain worthy of the master. Holmes had been dead three years; this book resurrected him.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

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