The Hound of the Baskervilles
A country doctor has come to 221B Baker Street, the lodgings of famed detective Sherlock Holmes, with the eerie tale of the Hound of the Baskervilles. The legend warns the descendants of the Baskerville family never to venture out on the moors that surround their ancestral home, for fear that they will meet the devil-beast that lurks there.
Such a story sounds preposterous to any man of reason, but now Sir Charles Baskerville is dead—and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Dr. John Watson agree to investigate the truth of the matter. They will soon learn that in this case, nothing is quite as it seems....
The most famous of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a classic of masterful detection and hair-raising suspense.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Long before crime fiction became a genre, there was Sherlock Holmes—and behind him, the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: physician, spiritualist, and literary architect of deduction itself. He didn’t just create a detective; he carved out an entire way of thinking, a cold, rational clarity that sliced through Victorian fog like a magnifying glass catching the morning sun.
Born in 1859 in Edinburgh, Doyle was a man of science before he was a man of letters. Trained as a doctor, he brought a clinical precision to his writing that made Holmes’s logic feel almost forensic in an age when forensic science was still in its infancy. The A Study in Scarlet debut in 1887 wasn’t just the birth of a character—it was the birth of modern detective fiction. And yet, Doyle always saw Holmes as a side project. It was his historical novels, like The White Company, that he considered his serious work.
Sherlock Holmes - The Original Stories
The original Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, all of which were serialised in popular magazines of the time prior to being published in book form.
Sherlock Holmes - The Original Stories consists of nine books and considered as a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
