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  1. 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 Mortimer, owner of the found ...

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  2. The Hound of the Baskervilles Summary. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are in Holmes’ Baker Street apartment, examining a walking stick left at the apartment the evening before by an unknown visitor. The stick was a gift, as shown by a plaque on it that says it’s from “friends of the C.C.H.” to James Mortimer.

  3. by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles Summary. This adventure concerns the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, and the possibility that the heir to his fortune might be the object of murder. Before the novel begins, Sir Charles Baskerville had died suddenly, perhaps the victim of a ghostly hound believed to haunt his ...

  4. Overview. 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 ...

  5. Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes off in the 1893 short story “The Final Problem.”. When the public revolted against this, Doyle brought Holmes back with The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901-1902. However, it wasn’t until his 1903 short story, “The Adventure of the Empty House,” that Doyle explained how Holmes was still alive.

  6. Overview. The Hound of the Baskervilles is a detective novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle, first serialized in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902. The novel represented the return of the famous English detective Sherlock Holmes after Conan Doyle had attempted to kill him off in 1893 in the story “The Final Problem.”.

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  8. The Hound of the Baskervilles Summary. The Hound of the Baskervilles is a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in which Sherlock Holmes investigates a demonic hound that has been killing off the heirs ...