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The Hound of the BaskervillesOn the coverThe Hound of the Baskervilles, Sidney Paget, 1902
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A country squire dies on the moor with terror frozen on his face, and an ancient family curse, a spectral hound, seems loosed again. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are drawn into the fog-bound wilds of Dartmoor in the most atmospheric of all the Holmes cases.
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The Holmes story even people who dislike mysteries love, gothic, eerie, and gripping, with the great moor itself as a character. A perfect doorway into detective fiction's founding hero.
Late-Victorian England, where electric reason and railway timetables met a countryside still thick with old superstition. On the moor, the modern detective's faith in evidence is tested by the oldest of fears.