The Hound of the Baskervilles
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4.5 • 406 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An Apple Books Classic edition.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous Sherlock Holmes novel sends the detective into a gothic landscape where logic meets legend.
When Sir Charles Baskerville dies under mysterious circumstances on the fog-shrouded moors of Dartmoor, whispers of an ancient family curse begin to spread. His heir arrives in England knowing he may be next, and Holmes must determine whether a supernatural hound truly stalks the Baskerville line, or if something far more darkly human is at work.
Reason battles superstition as Holmes applies his unflinching intellect to a case that seems to defy it. The Hound of the Baskervilles is tense, eerie, and atmospheric, revealing how even the darkest legends can be dragged into the light.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Those for whom the Oxford University Press edition (1993) was not the final word on the canon won't want to miss the latest volume in the Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and edited by Leslie S. Klinger. As David Stuart Davies notes in his introduction, Klinger provides annotations at once "scholarly, instructive and enlightening," as well as chronologies for the individual stories and a bibliography of secondary works.
Customer Reviews
Holmes. The nineteenth century Englishman.
So good to read again prose that fore-runs the modern madness of Political Correctness and before laws were passed that proposed freedom but resulted in slavery.
The high scented aroma of freedom of speech, for which we were told a war was waged and won, evokes the memory of all born in England before 1939.
Missing Graphics
Excellent stories and well-written - well, it is Sherlock Holmes. However, where a picture, map or diagram should have been in the text, the word "GRAPHIC" appeared instead. Sadly, this detracted from my overall enjoyment of the book. Not seeing the intended illustractions - which were not essential to follow the storyline - made me feel as if I were missing out.
bradshaw
i enjoyed reading these stories, entertaining but to easy to work out the endings.