About this book
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set in 1889 largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Holmes and Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.
One of the most famous stories ever written, in 2003, the book was listed as number 128 of 200 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel". In 1999, a poll of "Sherlockians" ranked it as the best of the four Holmes novels.
canon of Sherlock Holmes · 62 books
In publication order- The Boscombe Valley Mystery 1899
- The Hound of the Baskervilles 1902 This book
- The Adventure of the Empty House 1903
- The Adventure of the Norwood Builder 1903
Subjects
- adaptations
- amorality
- anglo-saxons
- animals
- apaces
- aristocracy
- banks
- barques
- beryls
- blessing and cursing
- brain fever
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- bushrangers
- cabinet cards
- carbuncles
- children's fiction
- children's non-fiction
- classic literature
- conclusions
- crime novel
- dartmoor (england)
- dogs
- dogs, fiction
- doyle, arthur conan, sir, 1859-1930
- drama
- england, fiction
- england, guidebooks
- england, in literature
- english civil war
- english detective and mystery stories
- english fiction
- fiction
- fiction, crime
- fiction, mystery & detective, general
- fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- holmes, sherlock -- fiction
- large type books
- literary landmarks
- mires
- murder
- mystery
- mystery and detective stories
- private investigators
- private investigators, fiction
- sherlock holmes (fictitious character)
- tombs
- tors
- translations into irish
- watson, john h. (fictitious character) -- fiction
- watson, john h. (fictitious character), fiction