The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Jul 2001 · Penguin
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson face a mystery on the moors in this classic caper from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
A country doctor has come to 221B Baker Street, the lodgings of famed detective Sherlock Holmes, with the eerie tale of the Hound of the Baskervilles. The legend warns the descendants of the Baskerville family never to venture out on the moors that surround their ancestral home, for fear that they will meet the devil-beast that lurks there.
Such a story sounds preposterous to any man of reason, but now Sir Charles Baskerville is dead—and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Dr. John Watson agree to investigate the truth of the matter. They will soon learn that in this case, nothing is quite as it seems....
The most famous of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a classic of masterful detection and hair-raising suspense.
Includes an Afterword by Anne Perry
A country doctor has come to 221B Baker Street, the lodgings of famed detective Sherlock Holmes, with the eerie tale of the Hound of the Baskervilles. The legend warns the descendants of the Baskerville family never to venture out on the moors that surround their ancestral home, for fear that they will meet the devil-beast that lurks there.
Such a story sounds preposterous to any man of reason, but now Sir Charles Baskerville is dead—and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Dr. John Watson agree to investigate the truth of the matter. They will soon learn that in this case, nothing is quite as it seems....
The most famous of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a classic of masterful detection and hair-raising suspense.
Includes an Afterword by Anne Perry
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24 reviews
Nalini Raja
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May 18, 2022
The story was very good; gripping with a good sense of mystery. It was nail biting and I felt a bit nervous at times. The story revolves around the curse that is supposed to be on the Baskerville family and the sinister events which take place on the "melancholy moor" of Devonshire. I am someone who loves to read mystery, detective and spy stories so I thought I would try reading a Sherlock Holmes book as they were the first detective novels written. It found that the book was quite old fashioned (unsurprising, since it was written in the Victorian era). The language was very formal and written in the style of an educated man as it is a retelling of the case by Sherlock Holmes' partner Dr Watson. I learnt a lot of new vocabulary from reading this book, but at times I found the writing a bit slow moving. The central character, Sherlock Holmes, is intelligent, unpredictable and a master of deductive reasoning – in summary, a fascinating character.
Shubham Goel
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November 16, 2014
The books basically is the best classical thriller. Even though you are able to guess who is the killer but the thrill is totally amazing. Hats off to the author.
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A Google user
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it is a a very good story that all the childrens likes very much .its a very intresting story that all the students like the suspense in that and likes to read firmly.
About the author
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, where he received a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet. His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur—he was knighted for his defense of the British cause in The Great Boer War—became an ardent spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.
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