The Hound Of The Baskervilles — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Late one night Sir Charles Baskerville is attacked outside his home in Dartmoor Devon Residents say they ve seen a monster in the area and heard its eerie howl in the moonlight Could it be the Hound of the Baskervilles a legendary creature that haunts the nearby moor Sherlock Holmes the world s greatest detective is on the case

Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead in the park surrounding his manor in the moors of Devon The death was attributed to a heart attack but according to Mortimer Sir Charles s face retained an expression of horror and not far from the corpse the footprints of a gigantic hound were clearly visible According to an old legend a curse runs in the Baskerville family since the time of the English Civil War when Sir Hugo Baskerville abducted a farm girl in the mires of Dartmoor only for the farm girl to escape Baskerville chased her across the moor and three of Baskerville s companions followed him only to find the girl dead of fear and exhaustion and the nobleman having been killed in turn by a huge demonic hound Allegedly the same creature has been haunting the place ever since causing the premature death of many Baskerville heirs Sir Charles believed in the plague of the hound and Mortimer now fears for the next in line Sir Henry Baskerville

Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead in the park surrounding his manor in the moors of Devon The death was attributed to a heart attack but according to Mortimer Sir Charles s face retained an expression of horror and not far from the corpse the footprints of a gigantic hound were clearly visible According to an old legend a curse runs in the Baskerville family since the time of the English Civil War when Sir Hugo Baskerville abducted a farm girl in the mires of Dartmoor only for the farm girl to escape Baskerville chased her across the moor and three of Baskerville s companions followed him only to find the girl dead of fear and exhaustion and the nobleman having been killed in turn by a huge demonic hound Allegedly the same creature has been haunting the place ever since causing the premature death of many Baskerville heirs Sir Charles believed in the plague of the hound and Mortimer now fears for the next in line Sir Henry Baskerville

I can well remember driving up to his house in the evening some three weeks before the fatal event He chanced to be at his hall door I had descended from my gig and was standing infront of him when I saw his eyes fix themselves over my shoulder and stare past me with an expression of the most dreadful horror I whisked round and had just time to catch a glimpse of something which I took to be a large black calf passing at the head of the drive So excited and alarmed was he that I was compelled to go down to the spot where the animal had been and look around for it It was gone however and the incident appeared to make the worst impression upon his mind I stayed with him all the evening and it was on that occasion to explain the emotion which he had shown that he confided to my keeping that narrative which I read to you when first I came I mention this small episode because it assumes some importance in view of the tragedy which followed but I was convinced at the time that the matter was entirely trivial and that his excitement had no justification Tanıtım Bülteninden

Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead in the park surrounding his manor in the moors of Devon The death was attributed to a heart attack but according to Mortimer Sir Charles s face retained an expression of horror and not far from the corpse the footprints of a gigantic hound were clearly visible According to an old legend a curse runs in the Baskerville family since the time of the English Civil War when Sir Hugo Baskerville abducted a farm girl in the mires of Dartmoor only for the farm girl to escape Baskerville chased her across the moor and three of Baskerville s companions followed him only to find the girl dead of fear and exhaustion and the nobleman having been killed in turn by a huge demonic hound Allegedly the same creature has been haunting the place ever since causing the premature death of many Baskerville heirs Sir Charles believed in the plague of the hound and Mortimer now fears for the next in line Sir Henry Baskerville

Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead in the park surrounding his manor in the moors of Devon The death was attributed to a heart attack but according to Mortimer Sir Charles s face retained an expression of horror and not far from the corpse the footprints of a gigantic hound were clearly visible According to an old legend a curse runs in the Baskerville family since the time of the English Civil War when Sir Hugo Baskerville abducted a farm girl in the mires of Dartmoor only for the farm girl to escape Baskerville chased her across the moor and three of Baskerville s companions followed him only to find the girl dead of fear and exhaustion and the nobleman having been killed in turn by a huge demonic hound Allegedly the same creature has been haunting the place ever since causing the premature death of many Baskerville heirs Sir Charles believed in the plague of the hound and Mortimer now fears for the next in line Sir Henry Baskerville

I can well remember driving up to his house in the evening some three weeks before the fatal event He chanced to be at his hall door I had descended from my gig and was standing infront of him when I saw his eyes fix themselves over my shoulder and stare past me with an expression of the most dreadful horror I whisked round and had just time to catch a glimpse of something which I took to be a large black calf passing at the head of the drive So excited and alarmed was he that I was compelled to go down to the spot where the animal had been and look around for it It was gone however and the incident appeared to make the worst impression upon his mind I stayed with him all the evening and it was on that occasion to explain the emotion which he had shown that he confided to my keeping that narrative which I read to you when first I came I mention this small episode because it assumes some importance in view of the tragedy which followed but I was convinced at the time that the matter was entirely trivial and that his excitement had no justification

The Hound of Baskervilles is the clasic dedektive chiller It features the world s greatest dedektive Sherlock Holmes in his most challenging case The Baskervilles family is hounted by a phantom beast with blazing eyes and dripping jaws which roams the mist enshrouded moors around the isolated Baskerville young Sir Henry the new master of the Baskeeville estate Is this siendish spectre the manifestation ofthe family curse Or is Sir Henry Holmes can solve this devilish affair The Hound of the Baskervilles is introduced by David Stuart Devies Editör od Sherlock Holmes The Detective Magazine and several books concerning Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller It features the world s greatest detective Sherlock Holmes in his most challenging case The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast with blazing eyes and dripping jaws which roams the mist enshrouded moors around the isolated Baskerville Hall on Dartmoor Now the hound seems to be stalking young Sir Henry the new master of the Baskerville estate Is this devilish spectre the manifestation of the family curse Or is Sir Henry the victim of a vile and scheming murderer Only Sherlock Holmes can solve this devilish affair The Valley of Fear is a dark powerful tale which provides the great detective with a most perplexing case and opens with a vile murder Lying across his chest was a most curious weapon a shotgun with the barrel sawn off in front of the triggers It was clear that it had been fired at close range and that he had received the whole charge in the face blowing his head almost to pieces Sherlock Holmes arch enemy the criminal genius Professor Moriarty is back But the solution to the riddle found after many surprising twists and high dramas lies far away half across the world in a location known as The Valley of Fear This is Conan Doyle s last Holmes novel