The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902,it is set 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,Introduction
Sir Charles Baskerville is found lying dead on the grounds of his country house,Baskerville Hall.The cause is ascribed to a heart attack.Fearing for the safety of Sir Charles's nephew and only known heir,Sir Henry Baskerville,coming from America to claim his inheritance,Dr James Mortimer travels to London and asks Sherlock Holmes for help.
Mortimer explains that the Baskerville family is afflicted by a curse.According to an old account,over two centuries ago Hugo Baskerville was infatuated with a farmers daughter.He kidnapped her and imprisoned her in his bedroom.She escaped and the furious Baskerville offered his soul to the devil if he could recapture her.Aided by friends,he pursued the girl onto the desolate moor.Baskerville and his victim were found dead.She had died from fright,but a giant spectral hound stood guard over Baskerville's body.The hound tore out Baskerville's throat,then vanished into the night.
Sir Charles Baskerville had become fearful of the legendary curse and its hellhound.Mortimer decided that Sir Charles had been waiting for someone when he died.His face was contorted in a ghastly expression,while his footprints suggested he was running from something.The elderly man's heart was not strong,and he had planned to go to London the next day.Mortimer says he had seen the footprints of a "gigantic hound" near Sir Charles's body,something not revealed at the inquest.
diabolical hound.
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