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About this book:
The Hound
of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.
Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to
April 1902, it is set 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.
Sherlock Holmes and his companion Doctor Watson investigate the case.
This was the first appearance of Holmes since his intended death in
"The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the
Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.
Sir Charles
Baskerville, Bart, is found dead on the grounds of his country house,
Baskerville Hall. The cause is ascribed to a heart attack. Fearing
for the safety of Sir Charles's nephew and the only known heir, Sir
Henry Baskerville, coming from Toronto, Canada to claim his
inheritance, Dr James Mortimer travels to London and asks Sherlock
Holmes for help.
Mortimer
explains that the Baskerville family is afflicted by a curse.
According to an old account, said to have been written in 1742 and
describing events which had occurred a century earlier still, during
the English Civil War, Hugo Baskerville was infatuated with a
farmer's daughter. He kidnapped her and imprisoned her in his
bedroom. She escaped and the furious Baskerville offered his soul to
the devil if he could recapture her. Aided by friends, he pursued the
girl onto the desolate moor. Baskerville and his victim were found
dead. She had died from fright, but a giant spectral hound stood
guard over Baskerville's body. The hound tore out Baskerville's
throat, then vanished into the night.
Sir Charles
Baskerville had become fearful of the legendary curse and its
hellhound. Mortimer decided that Sir Charles had been waiting for
someone when he died. His face was contorted in a ghastly expression,
while his footprints suggested that he was running away from
something. The elderly man's heart wasn't strong, and he had planned
to go to London the very next day. Mortimer says he had seen the
footprints of a "gigantic hound" near Sir Charles's body,
nothing was revealed at the inquest...
(source:
Wikipedia)
About the author:
Sir Arthur
Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish
physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories
about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered
milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for
writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented,
Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works
include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry,
non-fiction, and historical novels.
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