The Hound of the Baskervilles

The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories,The Hound of the Baskervillesfeatures the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly of a heart attack on the grounds of the family's estate, the locals are convinced that the spectral hound is responsible, and Holmes is called in. "Conan Doyle triumphed and triumphed deservedly," G. K. Chesterton wrote, "because he took his art seriously, because he lavished a hundred little touches of real knowledge and genuine picturesqueness on the police novelette." From the Trade Paperback edition.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh and took a degree in medicine at Edinburgh University before becoming a doctor in Southsea. He began writing detective stories to supplement his income and 'A Study in Scarlet' (1887) introduced his finest creation, the hawk-eyed detective, Sherlock Holmes.

Professor Christopher Frayling is Rector of the Royal College of Art, an expert on horror fiction and has published widely on the subject.

The Hound of the Baskervilles	p. i
Oxford World's Classics	p. ii
Acknowledgements	p. vi
General Editor's Preface to the Series	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
Note on the Text	p. xxx
Select Bibliography	p. xxxi
A Chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle	p. xxxvii
Mr Sherlock Holmes	p. 3
The Curse of the Baskervilles	p. 9
Three Broken Threads	p. 41
The Stapletons of Merripit House	p. 61
First Report of Dr Watson	p. 75
The Light Upon the Moor	p. 82
Extract from the Diary of Dr Watson	p. 99
The Man on the Tor	p. 109
Death on the Moor	p. 122
Fixing the Nets	p. 136
The Hound of the Baskervilles	p. 146
A Retrospection	p. 157
Explanatory Notes	p. 169
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The Hound of the Baskervilles

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