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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A Step upon the Stair…
“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill!”
Sherlock Holmes, who spoke those words as the strange mystery of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES was presented to him, is a person we all know—although no one has met him in person. In every language, his name means “detective.” There have been movies and plays and even a musical comedy about his adventures, but the prime way to enjoy them is still in the original stories.
Sherlock Holmes, with his brilliant deduction and keen insight, is something of a crime-solving machine; but what we enjoy so much in the stories is more than this, more than the dangers he faces and the triumphs he achieves. We enjoy also his very human companion, Dr. Watson, and the carefully detailed atmosphere of London in the romantic era of carriages and gaslight.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, born in 1859, was a practicing physician when he wrote the first Sherlock Holmes story. He was knighted in 1902, and died in 1930.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles
2007, Borders Classics
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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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