The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock Holmes 3 (Paperback)
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This is book number 3 in the Sherlock Holmes series.
- #1: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback): $18.99
- #2: The Sign of the Four: (Annotated) (Sherlock Holmes #2) (Paperback): $5.80
- #4: The Boscombe Valley Mystery (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #4) (Paperback): $6.99
- #5: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback): $15.88
- #6: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback): $18.78
- #7: His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes #7) (Paperback): $14.58
- #8: Sherlock Holmes - His Last Bow (Paperback): $9.00
- #9: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback): $10.99
- #11: The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #11) (Paperback): $6.99
- #12: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #12) (Paperback): $6.99
- #1887: A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes #1887) (Compact Disc): $24.95
- #1893: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Compact Disc): $29.95
- #1905: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Compact Disc): $24.95
- #1917: His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (MP3 CD): $24.95
Description
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sherlock Holmes 3 (+Biography and Bibliography) (Glossy Cover Finish): The rich landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the park of his manor surrounded by the grim moor of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon. His death seems to have been caused by a heart attack, but the victim's best friend, Dr. Mortimer, is convinced that the strike was due to a supernatural creature, which haunts the moor in the shape of an enormous hound, with blazing eyes and jaws. In order to protect Baskerville's heir, Sir Henry, who's arriving to London from Canada, Dr. Mortimer asks for Sherlock Holmes' help, telling him also of the so-called Baskervilles' curse, according to which a monstrous hound has been haunting and killing the family males for centuries, in revenge for the misdeeds of one Sir Hugo Baskerville, who lived at the time of Oliver Cromwell. Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) and astute observation to solve difficult cases. He is arguably the most famous fictional detective ever created, and is one of the best known and most universally recognizable literary characters in any genre. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that featured Holmes. All but four stories were narrated by Holmes' friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson, two having been narrated by Holmes himself, and two others written in the third person. The first two stories, short novels, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 and Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialized novels appeared almost right up to Conan Doyle's death in 1930. The stories cover a period from around 1878 up to 1903, with a final case in 1914.