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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.
Once in Devonshire, Watson discovers a state of emergency, with armed guards on the watch for an escaped convict roaming the moors. He meets potential suspects in Mr. Barrymore and Mrs. Barrymore, the domestic help, and Mr. Jack Stapleton and his sister Beryl, Baskerville neighbors.
Jun 19, 2024 · Based on a local legend of a spectral hound that haunted Dartmoor in Devonshire, England, the story is set in the moors at Baskerville Hall and the nearby Grimpen Mire, and the action takes place mostly at night, when the terrifying hound howls for blood.
Oct 1, 2001 · The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… In Detective Fiction. In Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923. About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles. Arthur Conan Doyle, Anne Perry (Afterword), Lígia Junqueira (Tradutor) ...more. 4.13. 350,339 ratings12,624 reviews. In this, one of the most famous of Doyle's mysteries, the tale of an ancient curse and a savage ghostly hound comes frighteningly to life.
The case begins with a document from 1742 that tells the legend of Hugo Baskerville and how he was mauled to death by a hound—allegedly from Hell—that came to be known locally as the hound of the Baskervilles.
The Hound of the Baskervilles presents the famous detective Sherlock Holmes with the ultimate challenge of using his modern methods of reason and deduction against primitive superstition and supernatural beliefs. He must prove that a real person and a corporeal hound are behind the events at Baskerville Hall, banishing all rumors of a curse.
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a detective novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle, first serialized in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902. The novel represented the return of the famous English detective Sherlock Holmes after Conan Doyle had attempted to kill him off in 1893 in the story “The Final Problem.”
Jan 5, 2022 · The third of the four crime novels featuring the famous detective Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902. It is set largely in Dartmoor in Devon, and tells the story of murder and attempted murder committed by a fearsome, supernatural, huge ...
