Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141199177 Number of pages: 208 Weight: 149 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 8 mm You may also be interested in. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end. McClure, Phillips & Company, 1902 - Blessing and cursing - 248 pages. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The Penguin English Library Edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle Inspired by regional mythology of the British Isles concerning hell-hounds, the tale tells of detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr.
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