Fiction · 1902
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead on the edge of Dartmoor with the footprints of a gigantic hound nearby, and his heir is arriving from Canada. Sherlock Holmes sends Dr Watson to Baskerville Hall to keep watch.
Arthur Conan Doyle published the novel in the Strand Magazine in 1901–02 and in book form in 1902, eight years after he had apparently killed Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls. It is the most read of the four Holmes novels and, for many, the best.
The fifteen chapters are given complete, with Conan Doyle’s dedication to Fletcher Robinson, whose account of a West-Country legend started the book.
Contents
- Dedication
- Chapter 1 — Mr. Sherlock Holmes
- Chapter 2 — The Curse of the Baskervilles
- Chapter 3 — The Problem
- Chapter 4 — Sir Henry Baskerville
- Chapter 5 — Three Broken Threads
- Chapter 6 — Baskerville Hall
- Chapter 7 — The Stapletons of Merripit House
- Chapter 8 — First Report of Dr. Watson
- Chapter 9 — The Light upon the Moor
- Chapter 10 — Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
- Chapter 11 — The Man on the Tor
- Chapter 12 — Death on the Moor
- Chapter 13 — Fixing the Nets
- Chapter 14 — The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Chapter 15 — A Retrospection
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About the author
1859–1930 · Victorian
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born in Edinburgh and trained as a physician there before practising in Southsea, where he wrote A Study in Scarlet (1887), the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes. The Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine from 1891 made him famous; he killed the detective in 1893 and revived him in 1901–03. He also wrote historical novels, the Professor Challenger stories (The Lost World, 1912), military histories, and, in his later years, extensively on spiritualism. He was knighted in 1902.
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