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  • Published: 3 March 2003
  • ISBN: 9780812966060
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $27.99

The Hound of the Baskervilles





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Introduction by Laurie R. King
 
The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly of a heart attack on the grounds of the family’s estate, the locals are convinced that the spectral hound is responsible, and Holmes is called in. “Conan Doyle triumphed and triumphed deservedly,” G. K. Chesterton wrote, “because he took his art seriously, because he lavished a hundred little touches of real knowledge and genuine picturesqueness on the police novelette.”

  • Published: 3 March 2003
  • ISBN: 9780812966060
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $27.99

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The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
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Love
Annals
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About the author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student. Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887).

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