The Hound of the Baskervilles

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Vintage, 2008 - Fiction - 199 pages
Introduction by Laurie R. King? 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."From the Trade Paperback edition.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
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About the author (2008)

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) introduced Sherlock Holmes in his first novel A Study in Scarlet. In 1893 Conan Doyle published "The Final Problem" in which he killed off his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more towards historical fiction. However Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901. The events of the The Hound of the Baskervilles are set before those of "The Final Problem," but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not died after all. Ruth Rendell is an award-winning author whose titles include 13 Steps Down and The Water's Lovely.

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TitleThe Hound of the Baskervilles
Vintage classics
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
PublisherVintage, 2008
ISBN0099518287, 9780099518280
Length199 pages
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Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Gothic
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Traditional
Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
  
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