The Hound of the Baskervilles
Crime novel by Arthur Conan Doyle / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 largely in Dartmoor, Devon in England's West Country and follows Holmes and Watson investigating the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. 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.[3]
Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Illustrator | Sidney Paget |
Cover artist | Alfred Garth Jones |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | Sherlock Holmes |
Genre | Detective fiction, Gothic fiction[1] |
Publisher | George Newnes Ltd |
Publication date | 25 March 1902[2] |
Preceded by | The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes |
Followed by | The Return of Sherlock Holmes |
Text | The Hound of the Baskervilles at Wikisource |
One of the most famous stories ever written,[3] 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".[4] In 1999, a poll of "Sherlockians" ranked it as the best of the four Holmes novels.[5]