The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination to this day.
Rationalism is pitted against the supernatural and good against evil as Sherlock Holmes sets out to defeat a foe almost his equal..
With its atmospheric setting on the ancient, wild moorland and its savage apparition, The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of the greatest crime novels ever written.
And, immersed in another case, he sends Dr Watson to Devon to protect the Baskerville heir and observe the suspects at close hand.
Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly Hound that is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristically dismisses the theory as nonsense.
The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination to this day
