The superstitious Charles suffered a heart attack after being frightened by the animal. Hoping to inherit the family estate, he has plotted to kill his relatives using a vicious hound that he has painted with phosphorous to appear sinister. Holmes deduces that the killer is Jack Stapleton, a neighbour who is actually Rodger Baskerville. Watson later discovers that the mysterious person is Holmes, who has been conducting his own investigation. More unsettling events occur, including the appearance of an unknown figure on the moor. Upon his arrival, Watson learns that an escaped convict is on the loose. Watson, who is sent to Dartmoor while the busy Holmes remains in London. Narrating the story is Holmes’s assistant, Dr. After Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead with his face twisted in stark terror, Holmes is called upon to protect his heir, Sir Henry Baskerville. The popularity of The Hound of the Baskervilles helped pave the way for Holmes’s appearance in later works.īased on a local legend of a spectral hound that haunted Dartmoor in Devonshire, England, the story is set in the moors at Baskerville Hall and the nearby Grimpen Mire, and the action takes place mostly at night, when the terrifying hound howls for blood.

It was the first Sherlock Holmes tale since the detective’s shocking “death” in the story “The Final Problem” (1893) but was set prior to his demise.

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