The Hound of the Baskervilles
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First serialised in 1901–02 and published in book form in 1902, The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most atmospheric Sherlock Holmes adventures. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies under mysterious circumstances on the bleak Devonshire moors, an ancient family legend seems to offer a terrifying explanation: a monstrous hound has hunted the Baskervilles for generations. Holmes and Dr Watson are drawn into a world of isolated country houses, sinister warnings and uneasy local suspicions, as Sir Henry Baskerville arrives to claim his inheritance.
Told largely through Watson’s observations, the novel balances the precision of detective fiction with the shadows and superstitions of Gothic romance. Dartmoor becomes a landscape of strange sounds, hidden dangers and prehistoric traces, where the supernatural seems almost more credible than reason. Written after Holmes’s apparent death in “The Final Problem”, the novel brought the detective back to readers after an eight-year absence and helped secure his enduring place in popular culture.
From the book
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
On The Hound of the Baskervilles
“Certainly no one can take it up without reading to the end — and woe betide the person who interrupts him.”
— The Critic, May 1902