The hound of the Baskervilles
By: by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2013-06-05
Place of publication: San Bernadino, CA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781477532522
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Fiction; Private investigators
Description: The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound.

Sir Charles Baskerville, a baronet, iS found lying dead among yew trees in the grounds of his country house, Baskerville Hall. The cause of death is ascribed to a heart attack. Fearing for the safety of Sir Charles's nephew and only known heir, Henry Baskerville—who was coming to London from Canada to claim his inheritance—Dr James Mortimer travels from Devon to London, and appeals for help to Sherlock Holmes.

Mortimer explains to Holmes and Watson that the Baskerville family iS said to be afflicted by a cufSe. He reads a description of the origin of the curse, as written down by a descendant of one Hugo Baskerville, who had lived two centuries earlier...
Table of contents: title: Mr. Sherlock Holmes
pagenum: 1; title: The Curse of the Baskervilles
pagenum: 9; title: The Problem
pagenum: 19; title: Sir Henry Baskerville
pagenum: 31; title: Three Broken Threads
pagenum: 43; title: Baskerville Hall
pagenum: 55; title: The Stapletons of Merripit House
pagenum: 65; title: First Report of Dr. Watson
pagenum: 79; title: Second Report of Dr. Watson
pagenum: 87; title: Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
pagenum: 105; title: The Man on the Tor
pagenum: 115; title: Death on the Moor
pagenum: 127; title: Fixing the Nets
pagenum: 141; title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
pagenum: 155; title: A Retrospection
pagenum: 167