Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles Illustrated Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialized in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902. Dr. James Mortimer calls on Sherlock Holmes in London for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead in the park surrounding his manor on Dartmoor in Devon. The death was attributed to a heart attack, but according to Mortimer, Sir Charles's face retained an expression of horror, and not far from the corpse the footprints of a gigantic hound were clearly visible. According to an old legend, a curse runs in the Baskerville family since the time of the English Civil War. Sir Charles believed in the plague of the hound and so does Mortimer, who now fears for the next in line