The hound of the Baskervilles
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; with an afterword by Anne Perry.
Contributors: Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: 100th Anniversary Edition; First Signet Classic Printing (Perry afterword) (3)
Publisher: Signet Classic
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 250
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Private investigators -- England -- Fiction; Blessing and cursing -- Fiction; Dogs -- Fiction; Dartmoor (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The country doctor had come to 221B Baker Street, the famous lodgings of Sherlock Holmes, with an eerie tale— the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the devil-beast that haunted the Ionély moors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home. The tale warned the descendants of that ancient family never to venture out on the moor "in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted." But one of the most recent Baskervilles, Sir Charles, was now dead—and the footprints ofa giant hound had been found near .hii body. Would the new Ileir of the Ba?kervill€s.tneet thé same dreadful fate? Sherlock Holmes and his fåiih/ul friend, Dr. Watson, are ffZ•ed with their most terrifying cåse in this wonderful classic of masterful detection bone-chilling suspense.