The Hound of the Baskervilles
By: Arthur Conan Doyle ; introduction by Laurie R. King ; notes by James Danly.
Contributors: Danly, James.
Edition: Modern Library pbk. ed. (7)
Series: Modern Library classics
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780812966060
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Private investigators -- England -- Fiction; Blessing and cursing -- Fiction; Dogs -- Fiction; Dartmoor (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly of a heart attack on the grounds of the family’s estate, the locals are convinced that the spectral hound is responsible, and Holmes is called in. “Conan Doyle triumphed and triumphed deservedly,” G. K. Chesterton wrote, “because he took his art seriously, because he lavished a hundred little touches of real knowledge and genuine picturesqueness on the police novelette.”
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.