The Hound of the Baskervilles - wikipedia The Hound of the Baskervilles For other uses, see The Hound of the Baskervilles ( disambiguation ). The Hound of the Baskervilles Cover of the first edition Author Arthur Conan Doyle Illustrator Sidney Paget Cover artist Alfred Garth Jones Country United Kingdom Language English Series Sherlock Holmes Genre Detective fiction Publisher George Newnes Publication date 1902 Preceded by The Final Problem ( last story of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ) Followed by The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the 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 Dr. 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. 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, it was listed as the top Holmes novel, with a perfect rating from Sherlockian scholars of 100. Contents 1 Plot 2 Origins and background 3 Inspiration 3.1 Original manuscript 4 Technique 5 Publication 6 Adaptations 6.1 Film and television adaptations 6.2 Radio 6.3 Stage 6.4 Video games 7 Related works 8 See also 9 References 10 External links Plot Dr. James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville. Sir Charles was found dead on the grounds of his Devonshire estate, Baskerville Hall, and Mortimer now fears for Sir Charles 's nephew and sole heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, who is the new master of Baskerville Hall. The death was attributed to a heart attack, but Mortimer is suspicious, because Sir Charles died with an expression of horror on his face, and Mortimer noticed `` the footprints of a gigantic hound '' nearby. The Baskerville family has supposedly been under a curse since the era of the English Civil War when ancestor Hugo Baskerville allegedly offered his soul to the devil for help in abducting a woman and was reportedly killed by a giant spectral hound. Sir Charles believed in the curse and was apparently fleeing from something in fright when he died. Intrigued, Holmes meets with Sir Henry, newly arrived from Canada. Sir Henry has received an anonymous note, cut and pasted from newsprint, warning him away from the Baskerville moors, and one of his new boots is inexplicably missing from his London hotel room. The Baskerville family is discussed : Sir Charles was the eldest of three brothers ; the youngest, black sheep Rodger, is believed to have died childless in South America, while Sir Henry is the only child of the middle brother. Sir Henry plans to move into Baskerville Hall, despite the ominous warning message. Holmes and Dr Watson follow him from Holmes 's Baker Street apartment back to his hotel and notice a bearded man following him in a cab ; they pursue the man, but he escapes. Mortimer tells them that Mr Barrymore, the butler at Baskerville Hall, has a beard like the one on the stranger. Sir Henry 's boot reappears, but an older one vanishes. Sherlock Holmes examining Dr Mortimer 's walking stick Holmes sends for the cab driver who shuttled the bearded man after Sir Henry and is both astounded and amused to learn that the stranger had made a point of giving his name as ' Sherlock Holmes ' to the cabbie. Holmes, now even more interested in the Baskerville affair but held up with other cases, dispatches Watson to accompany Sir Henry to Baskerville Hall with instructions to send him frequent reports about the house, grounds, and neighbours. Upon arrival at the grand but austere Baskerville estate, Watson and Sir Henry learn that an escaped murderer named Selden is believed to be in the area. Barrymore and his wife, who also works at Baskerville Hall, wish to leave the estate soon. Watson hears a woman crying in the night ; it is obvious to him that it was Mrs Barrymore, but her husband denies it. Watson can find no proof that Barrymore was in Devon on the day of the chase in London. He meets a brother and sister who live nearby : Mr Stapleton, a naturalist, and the beautiful Miss Stapleton. When an animal sound is heard, Stapleton is quick to dismiss it as unrelated to the legendary hound. When her brother is out of earshot, Mrs Stapleton mistakes Watson for Sir Henry and warns him to leave. She and Sir Henry later meet and quickly fall in love, arousing Stapleton 's anger ; he later apologises and invites Sir Henry to dine with him a few days later. Sir Henry Baskerville Barrymore arouses further suspicion when Watson and Sir Henry catch him at night with a candle in an empty room. Barrymore refuses to answer their questions, but Mrs. Barrymore confesses that Selden is her brother, and her husband is signalling that they have left supplies for him. Watson and Sir Henry pursue Selden on the moor, but he eludes them, while Watson notices another man on a nearby tor. After an agreement is reached to allow Selden to flee the country, Barrymore reveals the contents of an incompletely burnt letter asking Sir Charles to be at the gate at the time of his death. It was signed with the initials L.L. ; on Mortimer 's advice, Watson questions a Laura Lyons, who admits to writing the letter in hopes that Sir Charles would help finance her divorce, but says she did not keep the appointment. Watson tracks the second man he saw in the area and discovers it to be Holmes, investigating independently in hopes of a faster resolution. Holmes reveals further information : Stapleton is actually married to the supposed Miss Stapleton, and he promised marriage to Laura Lyons to get her cooperation. They hear a scream and discover the body of Selden, dead from a fall. They initially mistake him for Sir Henry, whose old clothes he was wearing. At Baskerville Hall, Holmes notices a resemblance between Stapleton and a portrait of Hugo Baskerville. He realises that Stapleton could be an unknown Baskerville family member, seeking to claim the Baskerville wealth by eliminating his relatives. Accompanied by Inspector Lestrade, whom Holmes has summoned, Holmes and Watson travel to the Stapleton home, where Sir Henry is dining. They rescue him from a hound that Stapleton releases while Sir Henry is walking home across the moor. Shooting the animal dead in the struggle, Sherlock reveals that it was a perfectly mortal dog - a mix of bloodhound and mastiff, painted with phosphorus to give it a hellish appearance. They find Miss Stapleton bound and gagged inside the house, while Stapleton apparently dies in an attempt to reach his hideout in a nearby mine. They also find Sir Henry 's boot, which was used to give the hound Sir Henry 's scent. Weeks later, Holmes provides Watson with additional details about the case. Stapleton was, in fact, Rodger Baskerville 's son, also named Rodger. His now - widow is a South American woman, the former Beryl Garcia. He supported himself through crime for many years, before learning that he could inherit a fortune by murdering his uncle and cousin. Stapleton had taken Sir Henry 's old boot because the new, unworn boot lacked his scent. The hound had pursued Selden to his death because of the scent on Sir Henry 's old clothes. Mrs Stapleton had disavowed her husband 's plot, so he had imprisoned her to prevent her from interfering. The story ends with Holmes and Watson leaving to see the opera Les Huguenots starring Jean de Reszke. Origins and Background Baskerville Hall, formally Clyro Court. It is thought this house may have provided Conan Doyle with the inspiration for The Hound of the Baskervilles The ruins of Fowelscombe House, viewed in 2008, a possible model for Baskerville Hall Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote this story shortly after returning to his home Undershaw from South Africa, where he had worked as a volunteer physician at the Langman Field Hospital in Bloemfontein at the time of the Second Boer War. Conan Doyle had not written about Sherlock Holmes in eight years, having killed off the character in the 1893 story `` The Final Problem ''. Although The Hound of the Baskervilles is set before the latter events, two years later Conan Doyle would bring Holmes back for good, explaining in `` The Adventure of the Empty House '' that Holmes had faked his own death. He was assisted with the plot by a 30 - year - old Daily Express journalist named Bertram Fletcher Robinson ( 1870 -- 1907 ). Inspiration His ideas came from the legend of Richard Cabell ( d. 1677 ), of Brook Hall, in the parish of Buckfastleigh, Devon, which was the fundamental inspiration for the Baskerville tale of a hellish hound and a cursed country squire. Cabell 's tomb survives in the village of Buckfastleigh. Squire Richard Cabell lived for hunting and was what in those days was described as a ' monstrously evil man '. He gained this reputation for, amongst other things, immorality and having sold his soul to the Devil. There was also a rumour that he had murdered his wife, Elizabeth Fowell, a daughter of Sir Edmund Fowell, 1st Baronet ( 1593 -- 1674 ), of Fowelscombe. On 5 July 1677, he died and was laid to rest in the sepulchre. The night of his interment saw a phantom pack of hounds come baying across the moor to howl at his tomb. From that night on, he could be found leading the phantom pack across the moor, usually on the anniversary of his death. If the pack were not out hunting, they could be found ranging around his grave howling and shrieking. In an attempt to lay the soul to rest, the villagers built a large building around the tomb, and to be doubly sure a huge slab was placed. Moreover, Devon 's folklore includes tales of a fearsome supernatural dog known as the Yeth hound that Conan Doyle may have heard. It is believed by Weller ( 2002 ) that Baskerville Hall is based on one of three possible houses on or near Dartmoor, namely Fowelscombe in the parish of Ugborough, the seat of the Fowell Baronets ; Hayford Hall, near Buckfastleigh ( also owned by John King ( d. 1861 ) of Fowelscombe ) and Brook Hall, in the parish of Buckfastleigh, about two miles east of Hayford, the actual home of Richard Cabell ( d. 1677 ), husband of Elizabeth Fowell. It has also been claimed that Baskerville Hall is based on a property in Mid Wales, built in 1839 by one Thomas Mynors Baskerville. The house was formerly named Clyro Court and was renamed Baskerville Hall towards the end of the last century. Arthur Conan Doyle was apparently a family friend who often stayed there and may have been aware of a local legend of the hound of the Baskervilles. Original manuscript In 1902, Doyle 's original manuscript of the book was broken up into individual leaves as part of a promotional campaign by Doyle 's American publisher - they were used as part of window displays by individual booksellers. Out of an estimated 185 - 190 leaves, only 36 are known to still exist, including all the leaves from Chapter 11, held by the New York Public Library. Other leaves are owned by university libraries and private collectors. A newly rediscovered example was sold at auction in 2012 for US $158,500. Technique This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( June 2015 ) The novel uses many traditional novelistic techniques which had been largely abandoned by the time of writing, such as letters, diary extracts, interpolated manuscripts, and the like, as seen in the works of Henry Fielding and, later, Wilkie Collins. It incorporates five plots : the ostensible ' curse ' story, the two red - herring subplots concerning Selden and the other stranger living on the moor, the actual events occurring to Baskerville as narrated by Watson, and the hidden plot to be discovered by Holmes. Doyle wrote that the novel was originally conceived as a straight ' Victorian creeper ' ( as seen in the works of J. Sheridan Le Fanu ), with the idea of introducing Holmes as the deus ex machina only arising later. Publication The Hound of the Baskervilles was first serialized in The Strand Magazine in 1901. It was well - suited for this type of publication, as individual chapters end in cliffhangers. It was printed in the form of a novel the following year. Adaptations The Hound of the Baskervilles has been adapted for many media. Film and television adaptations Over 20 film and television versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles have been made. Year Title Country Director Holmes Watson 1914 Der Hund von Baskerville, 1. Teil German Empire Rudolf Meinert Alwin Neuß None 1914 Der Hund von Baskerville, 2. Teil -- Das einsame Haus 1914 Der Hund von Baskerville, 3. Teil -- Das unheimliche Zimmer Richard Oswald 1915 Der Hund von Baskerville, 4. Teil 1920 Das dunkle Schloß Weimar Republic Willy Zeyn Eugen Burg None 1920 Das Haus ohne Fenster Erich Kaiser - Titz 1920 Dr. MacDonalds Sanatorium 1921 The Hound of the Baskervilles United Kingdom Maurice Elvey Eille Norwood Hubert Willis 1929 Der Hund von Baskerville Weimar Republic Richard Oswald Carlyle Blackwell George Seroff 1932 The Hound of the Baskervilles United Kingdom Gareth Gundrey Robert Rendel Frederick Lloyd 1937 The Hound of the Baskervilles Nazi Germany Carl Lamac Bruno Güttner Fritz Odemar 1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles United States Sidney Lanfield Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce 1951 Jighansa India Ajoy Kar Sishir Batabyal as Detective Smarajit Sen ? 1955 Der Hund von Baskerville West Germany Fritz Umgelter Wolf Ackva Arnulf Schröder 1959 The Hound of the Baskervilles United Kingdom Terence Fisher Peter Cushing André Morell 1962 Bees Saal Baad ( based on H.K. Roy 's Nishachari Bibhishika, the Bengali adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. ) India Biren Nag Asit Sen ( as Detective Gopichand ) ? 1968 The Hound of the Baskervilles Part 1 + 2 ( from the Sherlock Holmes 1965 TV Series ) United Kingdom Graham Evans Peter Cushing Nigel Stock 1968 L'ultimo dei Baskerville ( episode of the TV series Sherlock Holmes ) Italy Guglielmo Morandi Nando Gazzolo Gianni Bonagura 1971 The Hound of the Baskervilles ( Собака Баскервилей ) USSR A.F. Zinovieva Nikolay Volkov Lev Krugliy 1972 The Hound of the Baskervilles United States Barry Crane Stewart Granger Bernard Fox 1978 The Hound of the Baskervilles United Kingdom Paul Morrissey Peter Cook Dudley Moore 1981 The Hound of the Baskervilles ( Собака Баскервилей ) USSR Igor Maslennikov Vasilij Livanov Vitali Solomin 1982 The Hound of the Baskervilles United Kingdom Peter Duguid Tom Baker Terence Rigby The Hound of the Baskervilles United Kingdom Douglas Hickox Ian Richardson Donald Churchill Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse Australia Ian McKenzie & Alex Nicholas Peter O'Toole ( voice ) Earle Cross ( voice ) The Hound of the Baskervilles United Kingdom Brian Mills Jeremy Brett Edward Hardwicke 1995 The Slobbery Hound United States Fred Holmes `` Wishbone '' ( Soccer the Dog, voice of Larry Brantley ) Ric Speigel 1999 The Hounds of the Baskervilles ( episode of the animated TV series Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century ) United States, United Kingdom Robert Brousseau, Scott Heming Jason Gray - Stanford John Payne 2000 The Hound of the Baskervilles Canada Rodney Gibbons Matt Frewer Kenneth Welsh 2002 The Hound of the Baskervilles United Kingdom David Attwood Richard Roxburgh Ian Hart 2012 BBC Sherlock The Hounds of Baskerville United Kingdom Paul McGuigan Benedict Cumberbatch Martin Freeman 2015 The Adventure of Henry Baskerville and a Dog ( Basukaviru kun to inu no bōken, `` バスカー ヴィル 君 と 犬 の 冒険 '' ) Japan Michiyo Morita Kōichi Yamadera ( voice ) Wataru Takagi ( voice ) 2016 Elementary : `` Hounded '' United States Robert Hewitt Wolfe Jonny Lee Miller Lucy Liu Radio The Hound of the Baskervilles has been adapted for radio for the BBC by Bert Coules on two occasions. The first starred Roger Rees as Holmes and Crawford Logan as Watson and was broadcast in 1988 on BBC Radio 4. Following its good reception, Coules proposed further radio adaptations, which eventually led to an entire dramatisation of the canon for radio, starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. The second adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, featuring this pairing, was broadcast in 1998, and also featured Judi Dench as Mrs Hudson and Donald Sinden as Sir Charles Baskerville. Stage In 2007, Peepolykus Theatre Company premiered a new adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles at West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. Adapted by John Nicholson and Steve Canny, the production involves only three actors and was praised by critics for its physical comedy. Following a UK tour, it transferred to the Duchess Theatre in London 's West End. The Daily Telegraph described it as a ' wonderfully delightful spoof ', whilst The Sunday Times praised its ' mad hilarity that will make you feel quite sane '. This adaptation continues to be presented by both amateur and professional companies around the world. Ken Ludwig is the author of `` Baskerville : A Sherlock Holmes Mystery '', that premiered as a co-production at Arena Stage ( Washington, D.C. ) in January 2015 and McCarter Theatre Center in March 2015. Video games The Hound of Baskervilles serves as the primary inspiration for the final case in Dai Gyakuten Saiban : Naruhodō Ryūnosuke no Bōken in which the protagonist teams up with Sherlock Holmes to investigate mysteries based on various entries in the Holmes chronology. Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles is a casual game by Frogwares. It departs from the original plot by introducing clear supernatural elements. Despite its non-canonical plot, it received good reviews. Related works ( Chronological ) The movie The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1941 ) makes references to The Hound of the Baskervilles. Disney cartoonist Carl Barks parodied this story with The Hound of the Whiskervilles ( 1960 ), starring Uncle Scrooge. A 1965 issue of Walt Disney 's Comics and Stories ( comic book ) featured The Hound of Basketville, starring Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Gladstone Gander, and Pluto, as Sherlock Mouse, Doctor Goofy, Sir Gladstone Basketville, and the hound. Stapleton reappears in Richard L. Boyer 's version of The Giant Rat of Sumatra ( 1976 ). It turns out that he did not die, as Holmes and Watson assumed, but had escaped by another route, committing further crimes and vowing vengeance on Sherlock Holmes. William of Baskerville, protagonist of Umberto Eco 's novel The Name of the Rose ( 1980 ), is a Franciscan monk and a sleuth, inspired by Sherlock Holmes and perhaps William of Occam and other real and fictional characters. The hound of the Baskervilles is a character in Kouta Hirano 's supernatural manga series Hellsing ( 1997 - 2008 ). Spike Milligan satirised the novel in his book, The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan ( 1997 ), combining elements of the original novel with the Basil Rathbone serials. The Moor ( 1998 ), a novel in Laurie R. King 's series about Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell, uses the setting and various plot elements, with Holmes returning to Dartmoor on a later case. Pierre Bayard 's book Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong ( 2008 ) re-opens the case and, by careful re-examination of all the clues, clears the hound of all wrongdoing and argues that the actual murderer got away with the crime completely unsuspected by Holmes, countless readers of the book over the past century -- and even, in a sense, the author himself. See also Novels portal Sherlock Holmes portal Baskerville effect Edinburgh Phrenological Society Le Monde 's 100 Books of the Century Princetown # Geography References Jump up ^ `` Facsimile of the 1st edition ( 1902 ) ''. S4ulanguages.com. Retrieved 20 April 2010. Jump up ^ `` BBC - The Big Read ''. BBC. April 2003, Retrieved 31 October 2012 Jump up ^ `` The Best Sherlock Holmes Stories ''. Bestofsherlock.com. Retrieved 2014 - 06 - 23. Jump up ^ Text of the story at project gutenburg Jump up ^ Vivian, Lt. Col. J.L., ( Ed. ) The Visitations of the County of Devon : Comprising the Heralds ' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 125, pedigree of Cabell of Buckfastleigh Jump up ^ Spiring, Paul ( 2007 ). `` Hugo Baskerville & Squire Richard Cabell III ''. BFROnline. Retrieved 29 March 2009. Jump up ^ `` Cabell Tomb -- Buckfastleigh ''. Devon Guide. 2007. Retrieved 29 March 2009. Jump up ^ Vivian, pp. 125,370 Jump up ^ `` Buckfastleigh Church ''. Legendary Dartmoor. 22 November 2007. Retrieved 29 March 2009. Jump up ^ Weller, Philip, The Hound Of The Baskervilles - Hunting the Dartmoor Legend, Devon Books, Halsgrove Publishing, c. 2002, quoted in ( 1 ) Jump up ^ Vivian, Lt. Col. J.L., ( Ed. ) The Visitations of the County of Devon : Comprising the Heralds ' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 125, pedigree of Cabell of Buckfastleigh Jump up ^ `` Mansion said to have inspired The Hound of the Baskervilles on sale for £ 3m ''. Wales Online. Jump up ^ Stock, Randall ( June 10, 2013 ). `` The Hound of the Baskervilles : A Manuscript Census ''. bestofsherlock.com. Retrieved 9 October 2013. Jump up ^ `` DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan ( 1859 - 1930 ). Autograph manuscript leaf from The Hound of the Baskervilles, first serialized in The Strand Magazine, August 1901 - April 1902, published in book form by George Newnes, on 25 March 1902. ''. Christies. Retrieved 9 October 2013. Jump up ^ `` Publication of the Hound of the Baskervilles ''. History Today. Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055783/ Jump up ^ http://maamatimanush.tv/articlesTest.php?aid=408 Jump up ^ Chatterjee, ed. board Gulzar, Govind Nihalani, Saibal ( 2003 ). Encyclopaedia of Hindi cinema. New Delhi : Encyclopædia Britannica. p. 659. ISBN 978 - 81 - 7991 - 066 - 5. CS1 maint : Extra text : authors list ( link ) Jump up ^ The episode is based on `` The Adventure of the Dancing Men '' also. Jump up ^ Bert Coules. `` The Background ''. The BBC complete audio Sherlock Holmes. Retrieved 12 December 2016. Jump up ^ Bert Coules. `` The Hound of the Baskervilles ''. The BBC complete audio Sherlock Holmes. Retrieved 12 December 2016. Jump up ^ `` Licencing, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Peepolykus Theatre Company ''. Peepolykus.com. Retrieved 2014 - 10 - 28. Jump up ^ Purcell, Carey. `` Ken Ludwig 's Baskerville : A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Makes World Premiere Tonight '' playbill.com, January 15, 2015 Jump up ^ `` Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles ''. bigfishgames.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016. Jump up ^ Uncle Scrooge # 29, Dell, 1960. External links Wikisource has original text related to this article : The Hound of the Baskervilles Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Hound of the Baskervilles. Read The Hound of the Baskervilles at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- His Life, All His Works and More The Hound of the Baskervilles at Project Gutenberg The Hound of the Baskervilles ( Part I ) at BFRonline.biz. The Hound of the Baskervilles ( Part II ) at BFRonline.biz. The Hound of the Baskervilles ( Conclusion ) at BFRonline.biz. 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Question: hound of the baskervilles description of the hound
Answer: mortal dog - a mix of bloodhound and mastiff, painted with phosphorus to give it a hellish appearance