Magnet. Good. 18 x x11cm. Paperback. 1989. 240 pages.<br>We owe The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) to Arth ur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who too k him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, an d told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle t ransmogrified ... . ries, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edga r Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic ... .

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Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead and Sherlock Holmes is called upon to protect his heir, Sir Henry Baskerville. Narrating the story, Holmes’s assistant Dr. Watson is sent to Dartmoor to investigate the unsettling tale of the Hound of the Baskervilles. This legend warns the descendants of the Baskerville family never to venture out on the moors that surround their ancestral home, or they will meet the beast that lurks in the shadows. Though the story may seem unbelievable, a man is dead and footprints of a giant hound are found nearby. Sherlock and Dr. Watson agree to dig deeper into the truth of the matter and will discover that nothing is quite as it seems. The most famous of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles was serialized in The Strand Magazine in 1901-02 and soon published to book form in 1902. Wildly popular, this novel has been adapted for film numerous times, starting with a silent German production in 1914.

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On Apr 20 2021, a reader said:

The dialogue was cleverly written. Poor punctuation, however, made it difficult to read aloud, which is a disservice to the content. I suspect I could have invested in a better copy: the moths on the cover of my copy made the killer obvious upon his initial introduction. Nevertheless, this is a great case study on how to write a satisfying murder mystery.

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Bookseller: bookexpress.co.nz (NZ)
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Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator: Chris Riddell
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0416140327
ISBN 13: 9780416140323
Publisher: Magnet
Date Published: 1989
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