Mr Holmes they were the footprints of a gigantic hound! 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. 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. 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.
The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to
hold its place in the popular imagination. 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
