The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.


Synopsis:


Sir Charles Baskerville, baronet, is found 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 the only known heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, coming from Canada
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, said to have been written in 1742 and describing events
which had occurred a century earlier still, during the English Civil War, Hugo Baskerville
was infatuated with a farmer's 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 concluded that Sir Charles had been waiting for someone when he died.
His face was contorted in a ghastly expression, while his footprints suggested that he was
running away from something. The elderly man's heart wasn't strong, and he had planned to go
to London the very next day. Mortimer says he had seen the footprints of a "gigantic hound"
near Sir Charles's body, though nothing was revealed at the inquest.





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