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The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

First Published

1981

Subjects

crime novel
English Civil War
mires
tors
tombs
Dogs
England, fiction
Holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), fiction
Watson, john h. (fictitious character), fiction
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
Private investigators, fiction
Holmes, Sherlock -- Fiction
Watson, John H. (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Sherlock Holmes (Fictitious character)
Fiction
Private investigators
Blessing and cursing
Children's non-fiction
Animals
Doyle, arthur conan, sir, 1859-1930
Literary landmarks
Dartmoor (england)
England, guidebooks
England, in literature
Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Fiction, crime
Children's fiction
Mystery and detective stories
Dogs, fiction
Large type books
English Detective and mystery stories
Adaptations
Drama
English fiction
Translations into Irish
Classic Literature
Murder
Mystery
Conclusions
amorality
Anglo-Saxons
Apaces
aristocracy
banks
barques
beryls
brain fever
bushrangers
cabinet cards
carbuncles
Christmas dinners
churches
Classic fiction
Classics
commissionaires
Confederate States Army
coronets
counterfeit money
crime
Crime & Mystery Fiction
darkrooms
Detective and mystery stories
detective fiction
electric blue
Encyclopædia Britannica
English Children's stories
English Mastiffs
English Short stories
footprints
Fuller's earth
governesses
half-pennies
History
Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
hydraulic presses
jewellery
Juvenile fiction
Juvenile literature
Ku Klux Klan
lascars
locked-room mysteries
maids
Mystery and Suspense
opium dens
pawnbrokers
pennies
police inspectors
prima donnas
Private investigators in fiction
prospecting
red hair
revolvers
sailing ships
Short Stories
smoke bombs
snow
thumbs
John H. Watson (Fictitious character)

Description

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set in 1889 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. Holmes and 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. One of the most famous stories ever written, 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". In 1999, a poll of "Sherlockians" ranked it as the best of the four Holmes novels.

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