The Hound of the Baskervilles 150th Anniversary Edition

by Doyle, Arthur Conan; Perry, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780451528018
• ISBN10: 0451528018
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Signet Classics

Summary

The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories,The Hound of the Baskervillesfeatures the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly of a heart attack on the grounds of the family's estate, the locals are convinced that the spectral hound is responsible, and Holmes is called in. "Conan Doyle triumphed and triumphed deservedly," G. K. Chesterton wrote, "because he took his art seriously, because he lavished a hundred little touches of real knowledge and genuine picturesqueness on the police novelette." From the Trade Paperback edition.

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	9	(10)
The Curse of the Baskervilles	19	(14)
The Problem	33	(13)
Sir Henry Baskerville	46	(17)
Three Broken Threads	63	(15)
Baskerville Hall	78	(14)
The Stapletons of Merripit House	92	(19)
First Report of Dr. Watson	111	(10)
Second Report of Dr. Watson	121	(24)
Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson	145	(14)
The Man on the Tor	159	(18)
Death on the Moor	177	(17)
Fixing the Nets	194	(16)
The Hound of the Baskervilles	210	(16)
A Retrospection	226	(15)
Afterword	241	(8)
Selected Bibliography	249