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The Hound of the Baskervilles Novel

AUTHOR(S): ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE  

For other uses, see The Hound of the Baskervilles (disambiguation).

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Cover of the first edition

Author Arthur Conan Doyle

Illustrator Sidney Paget

Cover artist Alfred Garth Jones

Country United Kingdom

Language English

Series Sherlock Holmes

Genre Detective fiction

Publisher George Newnes

Publication date

1902[1]

Preceded by The Final Problem (last story of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes)

Followed by The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.

In 2003, the book was listed as number 128 of 200 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel."[2] In 1999, it was listed as the top Holmes novel, with a perfect rating from Sherlockian scholars of 100.[

Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville family's home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted. Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Will the new heir meet the same fate? 

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