The Hound of the Baskervilles - Acting Edition

by F. Andrew Leslie, from the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• ISBN13: 9780822205364
• ISBN10: 082220536X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1977-06-06
• Publisher: DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE INC

Summary

This special 100th anniversary edition of the only full-length Holmes novel includes a new afterword. The country doctor had come to 221B Baker Street, the famous lodgings of Sherlock Holmes, with an eerie tale -the legend of the devil-beast that haunted the lonely moors around the Baskervillesrs" ancestral home. The tale warned the descendants of that ancient family never to venture out on the moor "in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted." But the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, was now dead -and the footprints of a giant hound had been found near his body. Would the new heir of the Baskervilles meet the same dreadful fate? Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Doctor Watson are faced with their most terrifying casehellip;in this wonderful classic of masterful detection and bone-chilling suspense.

Author Biography

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle attended Jesuit boarding schools and then studied medicine at Edinburgh University. He planned to become an eye specialist, but was unsuccessful at establishing a medical practice. In need of additional income, he wrote his first story about Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet. His detective was modeled partly after Dr. Joseph Bell, a doctor from the Edinburgh Infirmary who had extremely keen powers of observation and analysis. After several rejections, a British publisher bought the story, and the world's best-known fictional detective was born. Conan Doyle was knighted in 1902 for writing a defense of the British cause in The Great Boer War. He went on to write fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures, as well as many other stories. He died in Sussex, England, in 1930.

Table of Contents

Mr. Sherlock Holmes	p. 9
The Curse of the Baskervilles	p. 17
The Problem	p. 29
Sir Henry Baskerville	p. 39
Three Broken Threads	p. 52
Baskerville Hall	p. 63
The Stapletons of Merripit House	p. 74
First Report of Dr. Watson	p. 89
The Light Upon the Moor: Second Report of Dr. Watson	p. 97
Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson	p. 115
The Man on the Tor	p. 126
Death on the Moor	p. 140
Fixing the Nets	p. 153
The Hound of the Baskervilles	p. 166
A Retrospection	p. 179
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