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The Hound of the Baskervilles Full Book Summary. The Hound of the Baskervilles opens with a mini mystery—Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson speculate on the identity of the owner of a cane that has been left in their office by an unknown visitor. Impressing Watson with his fabulous powers of observation, Holmes predicts the appearance of James ...
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Full Title The Hound of the Baskervilles. Author Arthur...
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The novel's other protagonist and narrator. Dr. Watson is...
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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 largely in Dartmoor, Devon, in England's West Country and follows Holmes and Watson investigating the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1902
With this information, Holmes suddenly has no leads at all in the case. It isn’t long before Watson, Mortimer, and Sir Henry make their way to Baskerville Hall. During the trip, they encounter heavily armed soldiers. The soldiers are searching for Selden, a murderer who has recently escaped from a nearby prison.
Full Book Analysis. The Hound of the Baskervilles presents the famous detective Sherlock Holmes with the ultimate challenge of using his modern methods of reason and deduction against primitive superstition and supernatural beliefs. He must prove that a real person and a corporeal hound are behind the events at Baskerville Hall, banishing all ...
Setting: London, England, and Devonshire County, England. Climax: Sherlock Holmes uncovers Jack Stapleton’s plot to kill Sir Henry Baskerville and shoots Stapleton’s monstrous hound dead just seconds before it can accomplish the murder. Antagonist: Jack Stapleton. Point of View: First Person.
Exposition (Initial Situation) Here, Doggie! Nice Doggie! (Please Don't Eat the Baskervilles) At the start of The Hound of the Baskervilles, detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal friend Doctor John Watson are sitting happily in the apartment they share (as roomies) when Doctor James Mortimer arrives to tell them a bizarre family legend about a giant demon dog that haunts the Baskerville ...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is a Sherlock Holmes novel written by his creator, the British author and physician Arthur Conan Doyle, and published in 1902. The book presents the eerie tale of terrifying deaths at a country estate beset by a ferocious giant dog, and Holmes’s ingenious proof that the legend of a canine monster is merely a pretext for murder.
