The Hound of the Baskervilles
Subtitle: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure
By: Arthur Conan Doyle.
Edition: Media Tie-In Edition
Publisher: Grafton
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London; Glasgow; Toronto; Sydney; Auckland
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780586202685
Description: *Now a major drama production from Granada Television*

While the visitor read from the yellowing Eighteenth Century document, his long quivering fingers were as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect. 

Sherlock Holmes yawned ostentatiously and flicked his cigarette into the fire. 

‘You don’t find the Baskerville legend interesting?’ asked Dr Mortimer. 

‘Possibly to a collector of fairy tales,’ said Holmes. 

But curse or no curse, Sir Charles Baskerville, Dartmoor philanthropist and probable Liberal candidate for mid-Devon, had died in the most perplexing circumstances. 

The footprints which led to his corpse had suggested to some idiot at the inquest that Sir Charles had tiptoed to his death. 

To Holmes the truth was as evident as his visitor’s credulity. Sir Charles Baskerville had been running, running for his life, running in terror—until his heart burst…
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Mr Sherlock Holmes
pagenum: 7; label: 2
title: The Curse of the Baskervilles
pagenum: 15; label: 3
title: The Problem
pagenum: 26; label: 4
title: Sir Henry Baskerville
pagenum: 37; label: 5
title: Three Broken Threads
pagenum: 51; label: 6
title: Baskerville Hall
pagenum: 63; label: 7
title: The Stapletons of Merripit House
pagenum: 74; label: 8
title: First Report of Dr Watson
pagenum: 90; label: 9
title: The Light upon the Moor
pagenum: 97; label: 10
title: Extract from the Diary of Dr Watson
pagenum: 113; label: 11
title: The Man on the Tor
pagenum: 122; label: 12
title: Death on the Moor
pagenum: 136; label: 13
title: Fixing the Nets
pagenum: 152; label: 14
title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
pagenum: 163; label: 15
title: A Retrospection
pagenum: 176