THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly of a heart attack on the grounds of the family?s estate, the locals are convinced that the spectral hound is responsible, and Holmes is called in. ?Conan Doyle triumphed and triumphed deservedly,? G. K. Chesterton wrote, ?because he took his art seriously, because he lavished a hundred little touches of real knowledge and genuine picturesqueness on the police novelette.?
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The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body, this classic horror story pits detective against dog. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end.
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The only full-length Sherlock Holmes novel is now available in this edition that celebrates the 100th anniversary of this classic case. Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the eerie tale of a devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville ancestral home after Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead--and the footprints of a giant hound are found near his body.
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The hound of the baskervilles editado por Oxford
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.
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Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner John Watson investigate a murder that appears to have been committed by a ghost. Centuries ago, Hugo Baskerville was killed by a vicious hell-hound, and now Sir Henry Baskerville has been found dead, seemingly killed by the same legendary hound. Can Holmes and Watson stop the next Baskerville heir from suffering the same fate? The Hound of the Baskervilles was the most successful of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series. Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories have been adapted numerous times, including the 2009 and 2011 movies starring Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr., and for the popular television shows Elementary, starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu, and the BBC’s Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in ...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's four crime novels featuring star detective Sherlock Holmes. Published in 1902, it is set in the moor country of Western England, where Doyle had traveled with a good friend Fletcher ""Bobbles"" Robinson. His friend gave him a tour of some ruins and regaled him with the old creepy local legends of the area, which inspired this story. It tells the tale of the Baskervilles, a family who had been haunted for ages by a hell hound which has killed all of their descendants, one by one out in the moors at night. So when Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead one night, the hound is to blame. Enter Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. When nephew Sir Henry shows up from Canada to claim the family fortune, the mysterious plot thickens. Dr. James Mortimer, a family friend of the Baskervilles, enlists Holmes and Watson to solve the case of the hound, and to protect Sir Henry. Thinking something smells fishy, Holmes sends Watson out to h...
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Ill The Problem I CONFESS that at these words a shudder passed through me. There was a thrill in the doctor's voice which showed that he was himself deeply moved by that which he told us. Holmes leaned forward in his excitement and his eyes had the hard, dry glitter which shot from them when he was keenly interested. " You saw this? " " As clearly as I see you." " And you said nothing? " " What was the use? " " How was it that no one else saw it? " " The marks were some twenty yards from the body and no one gave them a thought. I don't suppose I should have done so had I not known this legend." " There are many sheep-dogs on the moor? " " No doubt, but this was no sheep-dog." " You say it was large? " " Enormous." " But it had not approached the body? " " No." " What sort of night was it? " " Damp and raw." " But not actually raining? " " No." " What is the alley like? " " There are two lines of old yew hedge, twelve feet high and impenetrable. The walk in the centre is about eight feet across." " Is there anything between the hedges and the walk? " " Yes, there is a strip of grass about six feet broad on either side." " I understand that the yew hedge is penetrated at one point by a gate? " " Yes, the wicket-gate which leads on to the moor." " Is there any other opening? " " None." " So that to reach the Yew Alley one either has to come down it from the house or else to enter it by the moor-gate? " " There is an exit through a summer-house at the far end." " Had Sir Charles reached this? " " No; he lay about fifty yards from it." " Now, tell me, Dr. Mortimerand this is importantthe marks which you saw were on the path and not on the grass? " " No marks could show on the grass." " Wer...
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Paperback with 77 Pages of Additional Content (Summaries, Critical Notes, Glossary, Exercises, and...
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If Doyle's good friend Fletcher Robinson had never told local legends about escaped prisoners and a
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