HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

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 gray towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor will haunt the reader as Holmes and Watson seek to unravel the many secrets of the misty English bogs.

We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher 'Bobbles' Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?

Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's 'a real Creeper!' What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. 'The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul,' Watson realizes. 'Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths.' Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo

Grade 9 Up-In what is arguably both the best Sherlock Holme
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Una terrible maldición pesa sobre "Baskerville Hall," porque muchas muertes inexplicables shadow más de la familia crónica. Fuerzas del mal están en el trabajo. El moro es la conducción de un negro del animal ultrajes. Sherlock Holmes sólo puede tener éxito, un diabólico complot para prevenir. Arthur Conan Doyle en 1859 nació en Edimburgo, Escocia. Sus padres eran católicos estrictos, por lo que no es de extrañar que su hijo, una escuela jesuita. Doyle más tarde estudió medicina en Edimburgo 1884 y se casó con Louise Hawkins. Hasta 1891 trabajó como médico en Hampshire. Posteriormente, se dedicó exclusivamente a la escritura. Durante la Guerra de Sudáfrica (1899 a 1902), se desempeñó como médico en un hospital de campaña. En 1902 fue golpeado caballero. Después de la muerte de su hijo, la consecuencia de una guerra sucumbido a la lesión, que ha participado en estudios de ocultismo. Arthur Conan Doyle murió el 7 de Julio 1930 en su casa de Windlesham, Sussex.
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The Baskerville family has been haunted for generations by a fearsome hound - a phantom beast with blazing eyes and dripping jaws. Surely it is just a legend? Then Sir Charles is found mysteriously dead in the grounds of Baskerville Hall. It is time to bring in Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, to discover the truth about the family curse...
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