Unabridged version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle, offered here for chump change. Read the novel that Doyle insisted was, “a real Creeper!”
Sherlock Holmes is called to the English moors to save Sir Henry Baskerville... from what? An old legend of the family? But what was that sound? Howling? And then... a death from... Find out in this full length Sherlock Holmes mystery!
Contents
Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes 3
Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles 6
Chapter 3. The Problem 11
Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville 16
Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads 22
Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall 27
Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House 31
Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson 38
Chapter 9. Second Report of Dr. Watson 41
Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson 49
Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor 54
Chapter 12. Death on the Moor 60
Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets 66
Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles 72
Chapter 15. A Retrospection 77
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Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo
Sherlock Holmes and Watson set out to solve the most bewildering and bloodcurdling case of their careers in this world-famous classic of mystery and suspense.
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