Book description
"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.
