The Hound of the Baskervilles
By: A. Conan Doyle
Series: Magnum Easy Eye Books, No. 7
Publisher: Magnum Books
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 255
Copyright date: 1967 by Lancer Books, Inc.
Description: *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.
Table of contents: label: I
title: Mr. Sherlock Holmes
pagenum: 7; label: II
title: The Curse of the Baskervilles
pagenum: 17; label: III
title: The Problem
pagenum: 33; label: IV
title: Sir Henry Baskerville
pagenum: 47; label: V
title: Three Broken Threads
pagenum: 65; label: VI
title: Baskerville Hall
pagenum: 81; label: VII
title: The Stapletons of Merripit House
pagenum: 96; label: VIII
title: First Report of Dr. Watson
pagenum: 117; label: IX
title: The Light Upon the Moor
pagenum: 128; label: X
title: Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
pagenum: 154; label: XI
title: The Man on the Tor
pagenum: 169; label: XII
title: Death on the Moor
pagenum: 188; label: XIII
title: Fixing the Nets
pagenum: 206; label: XIV
title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
pagenum: 223; label: XV
title: A Retrospection
pagenum: 240