The superstitious Sir Charles suffered a heart attack after being frightened by the animal. Hoping to inherit the family estate, he has plotted to kill his relations using a vicious hound which he has painted with phosphorus to appear sinister. Stapleton is actually Rodger Baskerville. He reveals that the hound is real and belongs to Stapleton, who promised Laura marriage and convinced her to lure Sir Charles out of his house at night, in order to frighten him with the animal. Watson investigates the unknown man and discovers that it is Holmes, who is close to solving the mystery.
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Mortimer is eager to convince Sir Henry that the curse is real Frankland, an old and grumpy neighbour, likes to pry on others with his telescope his estranged daughter Laura has unclear ties to Sir Charles and an unknown man roams free on the moor and apparently hides on a tor where ancient tombs have been excavated by Mortimer. Sir Henry is drawn to Beryl, who is afraid of her brother's attitude to any relationship. He grows suspicious of the butler Barrymore, who at night signals from a window with a candle to someone on the moor. Among the residents, the Stapletons, brother and sister, stand out: Jack is overfriendly and curious toward the newcomers, while Beryl seems weary of the place and attempts to warn Sir Henry of danger.ĭistant howls and strange sightings start troubling Watson.
Watson faithfully sends details of his investigations to Holmes. In the daylight, they explore the neighbourhood and meet its residents. There are strange events during the first night, keeping Sir Henry and Watson awake. Meanwhile, convicted murderer Selden has escaped from Dartmoor Prison and is hiding on the moor. The estate is surrounded by the moor and borders the Grimpen Mire, where anyone can sink into mud to their death. The trio arrive at Baskerville Hall, which has a married couple, the Barrymores, as butler and housekeeper. Sherlock Holmes examining Dr Mortimer's walking stick Sir Henry Baskerville Holmes sees a clue in the Baskerville portrait Watson meets Stapleton Watson meets Miss Stapleton The hound killed by Holmes Holmes asks Watson to go with Sir Henry and Mortimer to Dartmoor, in order to protect the heir and investigate who is following him. Later, someone shadows him while he is walking down a street. A young man, Sir Henry is sceptical about the legend and eager to take possession of Baskerville Hall, in spite of receiving an anonymous note, warning him to stay away from the moor. However, he agrees to meet Sir Henry, who is arriving from Canada, where he has been living. In London, he asks for the aid of Sherlock Holmes, who dismisses the curse as nonsense. Dr James Mortimer, a friend of Sir Charles', fears for the next in line, Sir Henry Baskerville. The death is attributed to a heart attack, but his face retains an expression of horror, and not far from his body are the footprints of a gigantic hound.
One day, Sir Charles Baskerville, who takes the legend seriously, is found dead in the yew alley of his estate, Baskerville Hall, in the midst of Dartmoor. Plot The titular houndĪn old legend tells of a curse that runs in the Baskerville family since the time of the English Civil War, when Sir Hugo Baskerville was killed by a demonic hound, which has haunted the mires of Dartmoor ever since, causing the premature death of many Baskerville heirs. In 1999, a poll of "Sherlockians" ranked it as the best of the four Holmes novels.
One of the most famous stories ever written, in 2003, the book was listed as number 128 of 200 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel". This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in " The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set in 1889 largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. The Hound of the Baskervilles at Wikisource
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