Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, David Case
ISBN-13: 9781400108978, ISBN-10: 1400108977
Format: Compact Disc
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Date Published: September 2008
Edition: Unabridged with Companion ebook
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was both a doctor and a believer in spirits, which may partly explain why his Sherlock Holmes is one of literature's most beloved detectives: Holmes always approaches his cases with the gentility and logic of a scientist, but the stories are suffused with an aura of the supernatural. Narrated by devoted assistant Dr. John H. Watson, Holmes's adventures were so addictive that fans protested the master deducer's "death" in 1893 and Doyle had to resurrect him.
Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound which is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristically dismisses the theory as nonsense. Claiming to be immersed in another case, he sends Watson to Devon to protect the Baskerville heir and to observe the suspects at close hand.
Foreword | ix | |
1 | Mr. Sherlock Holmes | 1 |
2 | The Curse of the Baskervilles | 11 |
3 | The Problem | 27 |
4 | Sir Henry Baskerville | 41 |
5 | Three Broken Threads | 59 |
6 | Baskerville Hall | 74 |
7 | The Stapletons of Merripit House | 88 |
8 | First Report of Dr. Watson | 108 |
9 | Second Report of Dr. Watson | 119 |
10 | Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson | 145 |
11 | The Man on the Tor | 160 |
12 | Death on the Moor | 179 |
13 | Fixing the Nets | 197 |
14 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | 214 |
15 | A Retrospection | 231 |