The Hound of the Baskervilles
Edition: Penguin Popular Classics edition 1996 (16)
Series: Penguin popular classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780140621976
Description: Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson had been sharpening their detective skills deducing the characteristics of the man whose walking stick is in their possession, when the owner arrives greatly in need of their help.

Dr James Mortimer tells them that he has discovered the body of Sir Charles Baskerville in the grounds of his Devon home. Baskerville's face bore an expression of terror and his body showed signs of exhaustion, as if he had been fleeing something — or someone. Mortimer was aware of only one clue as to how Baskerville met his death: 'the footprints of a gigantic hound'.

Dr Watson is dispatched by Holmes to the desolate moorland of Devon. He learns about the ancient myth of the Baskerville hound, and as he uncovers the malevolent fury that lay behind Baskerville's death, he comes perilously close to meeting his own ...

An intriguing case for Holmes and Watson, The Hound of the Baskervilles is also one of Conan Doyle's most gripping and disturbing novels.
Notes: Originally published 1902.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Mr Sherlock Holmes
pagenum: 7; label: 2
title: The Curse of the Baskervilles
pagenum: 14; label: 3
title: The Problem
pagenum: 25; label: 4
title: Sir Henry Baskerville
pagenum: 34; label: 5
title: Three Broken Threads
pagenum: 46; label: 6
title: Baskerville Hall
pagenum: 57; label: 7
title: The Stapletons of Merripit House
pagenum: 67; label: 8
title: First Report of Dr Watson
pagenum: 81; label: 9
title: The Light upon the Moor
pagenum: 88; label: 10
title: Extract from the Diary of Dr Watson
pagenum: 105; label: 11
title: The Man on the Tor
pagenum: 115; label: 12
title: Death On the Moor
pagenum: 128; label: 13
title: Fixing the Nets
pagenum: 142; label: 14
title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
pagenum: 152; label: 15
title: A Retrospection
pagenum: 164