by Arthur Conan Doyle · Penguin Books, Limited (UK) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140621976
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«The Hound of the Baskervilles» is the mystery novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, published by Penguin Books in paperback (176 pages, in English).
The death of Sir Charles Baskerville on the Devon moors, alongside the footprints of a giant hound, awakens the legend of a family curse. Facing the danger that threatens the heir, Dr. Watson travels to the place while Sherlock Holmes directs the investigation from London to unravel the mystery of the ghostly dog.
Fifth title in the Sherlock Holmes series; it was originally published in 1902 and this 1996 edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
For readers aged 8 and up according to the publisher, interested in mystery, detective stories and Sherlock Holmes.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, which are milestones in crime fiction, and for his first work featuring Professor Challenger, The Lost World (1912), which gave its name to a subgenre of speculative fiction. He was a prolific writer who produced over 200 stories and articles, four volumes of poetry, and a number of works for the stage. He was knighted by King Edward VII in the 1902 Coronation Honours.
