The Penguin English Library Edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.
When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland, a family curse is blamed — and the enormous footprints of a phantom hound discovered nearby seem to confirm the worst. With Sir Charles’ heir now in terrible danger, it falls to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to pit cold rationalism against the supernatural and solve the mystery before history repeats itself in equally gruesome fashion. Fog-drenched moors, a monstrous beast and a corpse in the darkness: few crime novels have assembled their ingredients to more chilling effect than this. “Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!” The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has never loosened its hold on the popular imagination since.
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ISBN 13: 9780141199177
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
