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When Sir Charles Baskerville is found suspiciously dead, his friend, Dr. James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes to look into the death. While the cause of death is determined to be a heart attack, Mortimer suspects foul play and fears that Sir Charles’s nephew and sole heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, may be in danger next. At the center of the investigation is the curse of the Baskervilles, which dates back to the time of the English Civil War. Supposedly the family’s ancestor, Hugo Baskerville, sold his soul to the devil, and the family has been haunted by a large spectral hound ever since. Because Sir Charles was found with a look of horror on his face when he died, appeared to be running away from something, and large paw prints had been found near his body, there is reason to believe that the “Hound” may have returned. The details of the case spark the interest of Sherlock and he agrees to take up the case. “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” is the third of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels and is widely regarded as one of his best. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Digireads.com (February 22, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 124 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 142095282X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1420952827
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 - 11 years
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ GN620L
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 4 - 6
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.31 x 8.5 inches

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. Within those years was crowded a variety of activity and creative work that made him an international figure and inspired the French to give him the epithet 'the good giant'. He was the nephew of 'Dickie Doyle' the artist, and was educated at Stonyhurst, and later studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where the methods of diagnosis of one of the professors provided the idea for the methods of deduction used by Sherlock Holmes.
He set up as a doctor at Southsea and it was while waiting for patients that he began to write. His growing success as an author enabled him to give up his practice and turn his attention to other subjects. He was a passionate advocate of many causes, ranging from divorce law reform and the Channel Tunnel to the issuing of inflatable life-jackets to sailors. He also campaigned to prove the innocence of individuals, and his work on the Edjalji case was instrumental in the introduction of the Court of Criminal Appeal. He was a volunteer physician in the Boer War and later in life became a convert to spiritualism.
His greatest achievement was, of course, his creation of Sherlock Holmes, who soon attained international status and constantly distracted him from his other work; at one time Conan Doyle killed him but was obliged by public protest to restore him to life. And in his creation of Dr Watson, Holmes's companion in adventure and chronicler, Conan Doyle produced not only a perfect foil for Holmes but also one of the most famous narrators in fiction. Penguin publish all the books about the great detective, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes.
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LA in Dallas

My introduction to Sherlock Holmes

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2023

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I can be fairly precise about the year in which I first read The Hound of the Baskervilles because I remember the book itself. When I was in grade school (3rd - 6th grades, 1963-66), there was a program at our school that allowed us to buy cheap paperback printings of classic novels for 25 cents or 35 cents (for the longer ones). We would get a catalog every month. We were allowed to order up to three a month, which, of course, I did every month.

This is one reason why I am not a member of the "I love the smell and feel of a real paper book" brigade. These were the most poorly produced books I have ever seen in my life. The paper turned brown within minutes, it seemed, and within a year the glue had decomposed, so that you really had only a sheaf of brittle crackly loose pages in a sort of small folder with a picture on it. Still readable, as long as you didn't drop it and get the pages out of order. OK -- a book is a book, and I loved them. But they would have been improved by being on a kindle, like this edition.

So, HotB was one of these. When I ordered it I had no idea what it was about, except that I knew that it was a classic book, and was warned that it might be scary ("for a kid my age" was the implicit subtext, which I read loud and clear -- you can imagine how effectively that deterred me). It was thus that I became aware of the classic books behind the inescapable Sherlock Holmes images and jokes and movies.

I was not an instant convert. HotB is not that great a novel, not that great a mystery, and not that great a Sherlock Holmes novel. Arthur Conan Doyle's weaknesses as a thinker were becoming more obvious by the time he wrote HotB. Also, he was already tired of his character Holmes, whom he had tried unsuccessfully to kill off, and it was fairly evident even to ten-year-old me that his actual goal in HotB was to shoehorn a gothic horror plot he found more congenial into a Sherlock Holmes novel.

I did eventually learn to love the Holmes canon, but that came many years later when my Aunt Althea in New York City, who always knew about the latest books, gave me a newly published complete collection of Sherlock Holmes stories and novels. It was only when I read the entire oeuvre that I recognized what a great body of work it is, even with all its many flaws.

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Kenya Starflight

A well-known Holmes story that's still nicely chilling and enjoyable

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 26, 2021

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Sherlock Holmes has so thoroughly permeated the literary and pop-culture worlds that it's possible to be very familiar with the fictional man, the stories dedicated to him, and the tropes ascribed to him without ever having read one of his actual stories. And for a long time I was one of those people -- I knew plenty about Sherlock and even knew the basics of the plot to "Hound of the Baskervilles" (thanks, Wishbone), but had never actually read a Holmes story. "Hound of the Baskervilles" is my first Sherlock Holmes story, and while I already knew the basics of the plot, it was nice to read the original, and it was nicely suspenseful and full of twists.

When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the moors near his estate, it's assumed he died of a heart attack. But the esteemed detective Sherlock Holmes suspects foul play, and so when Baskerville's nephew goes to claim the estate as the last surviving heir, Holmes sends his assistant Watson to accompany him and gather clues. Watson dutifully records the goings-on and the intrigues surrounding the estate and the surrounding farms and moors... but it will fall on Holmes to finally piece together the mystery. And when a dark legend surrounding the Baskervilles -- a legend concerning a demonic hound -- rears its ugly head once again, it remains to be seen if the famed detective can stop the legend from claiming another life...

Surprisingly, Sherlock Holmes is absent for a good chunk of this book. But Watson is a surprisingly likable protagonist, an everyman who may lack Holmes' brilliant mind but is still analytical enough to pick up clues, and who has a sense of empathy and kindness that Holmes can occasionally lack. And there's a surprisingly eclectic and fun cast of characters to be had in this story, from the hapless American transplant trying to get settled in a dreary English estate to the servants with their own dark secrets to the doctor with an eccentric obsession with skulls.

While I was familiar with this story going in (not surprising, as it's one of the most famous Holmes stories), it still managed to be a nicely chilling and suspenseful read. The writing style can feel a little antiquated compared to a lot of modern writing, especially thrillers, but it still manages to hold a lot of suspense and creeping horror, as well as some genuinely witty and humorous moments to lighten the mood as necessary.

The Sherlock Holmes stories have managed to stand the test of time, and for good reason. Hound of the Baskervilles is still a creepy and enjoyable read decades after it was first written, and is a great mystery story with a dash of possibly-supernatural elements to liven it up.

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James Wheeler

Great story but beware the explanatory notes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 24, 2020

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I absolutely loved this story. Dartmoor is a great setting for a murder mystery. The descriptions of strange happenings on foggy days and dark nights really get the imagination flowing.

The Oxford Classics version has many explanatory notes. On the whole, these are just not required. For example, do we really need to be told that a "wicket-gate" is a "small gate", that a "wire" is a "telegram" or that Waterloo Station is one of London's major railway stations? Worse than this though, the explanatory notes contain SPOILERS. The note relating to page 50 tells you who the perpetrator is! Another note tells you who the strange man living on the moor is. Another note tells you that a certain character is alive at the end of the story. This ruins a certain other piece of the story. I had last read the Hound probably 35 years ago. I had forgotten who did it! The notes spoilt my enjoyment of the book - don't read them!

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Tim Dumble

Eerie and atmospheric thriller

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 19, 2022

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Like Bronte and Du Maurier, Doyle uses the moor as an additional character, an omnipresent and menacing presence with its wailing tors, pony swallowing mires and Bronze Age relics.

This eerie tale pitches the rational Holmes against the supernatural in a battle for sanity.A pulsating chase for truth, this can be read as a stand-alone Holmes, no previous experience of the great man is required.

Doyle draws heavily on the ancient history and folklore of the West Country to create a gripping narrative, populated by convincing characters. Indeed this addition includes an informative essay discussing potential sources of the tale. However the choice of cover becomes increasingly a spoiler as the plot progresses.

John Moseley

Good luck with trying to put it down

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 16, 2012

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The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of the few Sherlock Holmes mysteries published in book form (A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four being the others). The majority of Holmes stories were originally published in periodicals and Christmas annuals as short stories and have remained so. Perhaps the discipline of writing short format narrative is what helps give this particular story its superb pacing and suspense. It is an over-used cliché, but you simply cannot put it down. From the moment the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville and the presence of a gigantic, ghoulish hound are revealed, the narrative whisks the reader breathlessly off in pursuit of the truth out on the atmospheric and brooding Dartmoor. Although clearly of the detective fiction genre in its own right, The Hound of the Baskervilles also shares much in common with the sensation fiction of Wilkie Collins and the gothic horror of Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson with a phantasmic, netherworldly fiend striking terror and death in the heart of the Victorian household.

A word of caution on the slightly over-zealous Notes section to this edition. Although the Notes often shed interesting light on key aspects of the text, it is probably not necessary to be reminded that, for example, `Alton is a leafy market town in Hampshire' or to have the identity of the mysterious `Man on the Tor' revealed two chapters in advance. For this reason, the Notes are perhaps best read after the text, and not in parallel with it.

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Richard Rogers

Wonderful BBC adaption

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 7, 2011

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Fans of Sherlock Holmes know this story inside and out. I believe most followers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work would rate this as his finest, as I most cetrainly do. Clive Merrison plays fictions most famous detective and Michael Williams his trusty side kick.

Instead of a brief outline of the story, which most will know, let me give you my humble opinion of this recording. The great thing about BBC plays for radio is the background! A wonderful atmosphere, that is so 'alive', helps to bring the best out of the two aforementioned actors. Merrison plays 'Holmes' with an edge; mocking his friend Watson and his incorrect deduction's and then emploring him as to the seriousness of the situation. Even the interlude of the violin between scenes touches Holmes' angst...

Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke were Holmes and Watson personified for the screen. Clive Merrison, and his very able companion Michael williams, may hold this same accolade for radio.

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cleopatra59

Worth the read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 5, 2014

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Well, if you are looking for an all action book, this isn't the one for you. However if you are looking for a story with a slow build up, this is it.

The story started off with Sherlock and Dr Watson discussing a stick left behind by their visitor and so they began surmising his profile based on various clues engraved on a stick he left behind. Shortly after, they received a visit from a Dr James Mortimer, who presented a manuscript given to him by Sir Charles Baskerville, whose sudden death stirred up great excitement in Derbyshire. It contained the statement of a certain legend which runs in the Baskerville family. It all began with Hugo Baskerville, who fell in love with a young maiden who did not return his favour, so he set about removing her forcibly from her home and brought her to his home. While he was in a state of intoxication she escaped and in anger he set after her, with his hounds. As a result the maiden fell to her death out of fear and fatigue but that wasn't the most terrifying scene. It was the body of Hugo Baskerville, standing over him was a huge black hound tearing his throat out and because of his actions it has plagued his family ever since.

Now the next in line to inherit Baskerville Hall is Mr Henry Baskerville and Mr Mortimer is concerned he too will meet a tragic end. An appointment was arranged to meet with Henry, who is the last of the Baskerville and so the events began to take shape, with a missing boot and impersonation.

The story moved on with Dr Watson travelling to Derbyshire with Holmes staying behind in London. Watson was to report back to Sherlock about anything pertinent to the case.
The events of the story is told through Dr Watson and his correspondents to Holmes. So the majority of the story is told through Watson. His description of the moors add depth and atmosphere. We are introduce to some of the secondary characters, who play a pivotal role in the story but unaware of the bigger picture. It's only until the last few chapters we begin to see the events coming together and leading up to a climax. The story might be slow but its worth reading to the end. So if you are not already familiar with Sherlock Holmes, you will be pleasantly surprised.

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