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.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Sherlock Holmes Adventure
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While the visitor read from the yellowing Eighteenth Century document, his long quivering fingers were as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect.
Sherlock Holmes yawned ostentatiously and flicked his cigarette into the fire.
‘You don’t find the Baskerville legend interesting?’ asked Dr Mortimer.
‘Possibly to a collector of fairy tales,’ said Holmes.
But curse or no curse, Sir Charles Baskerville, Dartmoor philanthropist and probable Liberal candidate for mid-Devon, had died in the most perplexing circumstances.
The footprints which led to his corpse had suggested to some idiot at the inquest that Sir Charles had tiptoed to his death.
To Holmes the truth was as evident as his visitor’s credulity. Sir Charles Baskerville had been running, running for his life, running in terror—until his heart burst…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure
1988, Grafton
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Table of Contents
1.
Mr Sherlock Holmes
Page 7
2.
The Curse of the Baskervilles
Page 15
3.
The Problem
Page 26
4.
Sir Henry Baskerville
Page 37
5.
Three Broken Threads
Page 51
6.
Baskerville Hall
Page 63
7.
The Stapletons of Merripit House
Page 74
8.
First Report of Dr Watson
Page 90
9.
The Light upon the Moor
Page 97
10.
Extract from the Diary of Dr Watson
Page 113
11.
The Man on the Tor
Page 122
12.
Death on the Moor
Page 136
13.
Fixing the Nets
Page 152
14.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Page 163
15.
A Retrospection
Page 176
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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.
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