The Hound of the Baskervilles

Product Description The Hound of the Baskervilles is Conan Doyle's masterpiece, the finest of the Sherlock Holmes cases, a skilful blend of mystery, suspense, deceit and horror. Review 'Arguably both the best Sherlock Holmes story in the canon and one of the classic all-time mystery novels . . . Doyle parlays his interest in the occult with keen scientific detection.' --Library Journal'What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent . . . Read on--but, reader, watch your step!' --Amazon.com, editorial review'It is not going too far to say that in Sherlock Holmes we find one of the most interesting characters of contemporary fiction. The versatile pen of Dr. Doyle has never done better work than these capital detective stories, the best of which is the powerfully written novel here considered. --Book News About the Author Arthur (later Sir Arthur) Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh on 22 May, 1859. He studied medicine in his home city but also started publishing short stories while a student. After practising as a ship's doctor and in Plymouth, he settled in Portsmouth as a GP. He returned to writing to bolster his income, having his first success with A Study in Scarlet in 1887, also his first work to feature Sherlock Holmes, modelled on a former university professor. Conan Doyle found the runaway popular success of this character a hindrance to his desire to write more serious historical novels thereafter, however, and famously killed him off before yielding to public demand to continue writing Holmes stories. His other fiction includes some notable science fiction including The Lost World, historical novels and other mystery and crime stories. Conan Doyle also concerned himself with criminal justice, the Boer War and, after suffering from depression later in life, defending the Spiritualist religion. He died of a heart attack on 7 July, 1930.