Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Name: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Mystery, Thriller and Adventure

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Language: English
First published: 1902
Reading time: 257 minutes
Chapters: 15 chapters

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A country doctor brings Sherlock Holmes an old family legend and a fresh death on Dartmoor.

Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead in the grounds of his house, with a look of horror on his face, and near the body were the footprints of a gigantic hound. Now the heir is arriving from Canada. Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 novel, the most famous of the Holmes stories, sets a ghostly curse and a bleak, misty moor against a detective who trusts only evidence. Read it on a dark evening: the suspense still works.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the…

Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes

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Project Gutenberg eBook #2852 (updated 22 October 2026), downloaded 7 November 2026. The title page, the author's short dedication to his friend Robinson, the contents list and the closing words "THE END" were not imported. The 15 chapters are unchanged, except that the hard-wrapped lines of each paragraph were joined, because every line of this file is indented.
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Mystery, Thriller and Adventure
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