description: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a "Penang lawyer." Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. "To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.," was engraved upon it, with the date "1884." It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry-dignified, solid, and reassuring. "Well, Watson, what do you make of it?" Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.
language: English
title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
titlecomplete: The Hound of the Baskervilles
characters: Laura Lyons, Sherlock Holmes, John Barrymore (Conan Doyle), Charles Baskerville, Mr. Frankland, Henry Baskerville, Jack Stapleton, James Mortimer, Mr. Perkins, Beryl Stapleton, Eliza Barrymore, Dr. John Watson, Johna Clayton, James Desmond, Mr. Selden, John Watson
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Literature, Classics, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 331917
places: Devon, England, England, Dartmoor, Devon, England, London, England
series: Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes Compleet
awards: awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Audie Award
category: Best Audio Drama, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: CWA Best Ever
category: Crime Novel
publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society