The Hound of the Baskervilles

Introduction by Laurie R. King

The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly of a heart attack on the grounds of the family's estate, the locals are convinced that the spectral hound is responsible, and Holmes is called in. "Conan Doyle triumphed and triumphed deservedly," G. K. Chesterton wrote, "because he took his art seriously, because he lavished a hundred little touches of real knowledge and genuine picturesqueness on the police novelette."

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 10/08/2002
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.24w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9780812966060
ISBN10: 0812966066
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Private Investigators
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of twelve Mary Russell mysteries (one of which, The Moor, was inspired in part by The Hound of the Baskervilles), five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, and the acclaimed novels A Darker Place, Folly, Keeping Watch, and Touchstone. She lives in Northern California.