The Hound of the Baskervilles
Edition: Authorized Edition; New Edition, Eleventh printing
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Corporation
Published: 1971-11
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 174
Description: "... It's an ugly business, Watson, an ugly, dangerous business, and the more I see if it the less I like it..."

Holmes is referring to the eerie events surrounding the recent death of Sir Charles Baskerville. For the "luminous, ghastly, and spectral" hound of family legend has been seen roaming the moors at night, and it appears that the new baronet, Sir Henry, has inherited, along with the ancient home and vast wealth of his family, a dreadful destiny...