{"product_id":"the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-isbn-9780451528018","title":"The Hound of the Baskervilles","description":"\u003cb\u003eSherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson face a mystery on the moors in this classic caper from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA country doctor has come to 221B Baker Street, the lodgings of famed detective Sherlock Holmes, with the eerie tale of the Hound of the Baskervilles. The legend warns the descendants of the Baskerville family never to venture out on the moors that surround their ancestral home, for fear that they will meet the devil-beast that lurks there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuch a story sounds preposterous to any man of reason, but now Sir Charles Baskerville is dead—and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Dr. John Watson agree to investigate the truth of the matter. They will soon learn that in this case, nothing is quite as it seems....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe most famous of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Hound of the Baskervilles\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic of masterful detection and hair-raising suspense.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIncludes an Afterword by Anne Perry\u003c\/b\u003e“The whole Sherlock Holmes saga is a triumphant illustration of art’s supremacy over  life.”—Christopher Morley\u003cb\u003eSir Arthur Conan Doyle\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, where he received a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet. His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur—he was knighted for his defense of the British cause in The Great Boer War—became an ardent spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTitle Page\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopyright Page\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDedication\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 - Mr. Sherlock Holmes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 - The Curse of the Baskervilles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 - The Problem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 - Sir Henry Baskerville\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 - Three Broken Threads\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 - Baskerville Hall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7 - The Stapletons of Merripit House\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8 - First Report of Dr. Watson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9 - Second Report of Dr. Watson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10 - Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11 - The Man on the Tor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12 - Death on the Moor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13 - Fixing the Nets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14 - The Hound of the Baskervilles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15 - A Retrospection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSir Arthur Conan Doyle\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, where he received a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, \u003ci\u003eA Study in Scarlet.\u003c\/i\u003e His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur—he was knighted for his defense of the British cause in \u003ci\u003eThe Great Boer War\u003c\/i\u003e—became an ardent spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith more than ten million copies sold worldwide, \u003cb\u003eAnne Perry\u003c\/b\u003e is indisputably one of the world’s most popular mystery writers. She is noted for her memorable characters, historical accuracy, and exploration of social and ethical issues. Her story “Heroes” won the 2000 Edgar Award for the short story. She lives in a small fishing village on the remote North Sea coast of Scotland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSIGNET CLASSICS \u003cbr\u003ePublished by New American Library, a division of \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, \u003cbr\u003eNew York, New York 10014, USA \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, \u003cbr\u003eOntario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, \u003cbr\u003eIreland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd.) \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, \u003cbr\u003eAustralia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty. Ltd.) \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Books India Pvt. 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Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDEDICATION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMY DEAR ROBINSON: It was your account of a west country legend which first suggested the idea of this little tale to my mind. For this, and for the help which you gave me in its evolution, all thanks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYours most truly, \u003cbr\u003eA. CONAN DOYLE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMr. Sherlock Holmes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMR. 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 night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.” Just under the head was a broad silver band, nearly an inch across. “To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,” was engraved upon it, with the date “1884.” It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Well, Watson, what do you make of it?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHolmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me,” said he. “But, tell me, Watson, what do you make of our visitor’s stick? Since we have been so unfortunate as to miss him and have no notion of his errand, this accidental souvenir becomes of importance. Let me hear you reconstruct the man by an examination of it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I think,” said I, following as far as I could the methods of my companion, “that Dr. Mortimer is a successful, elderly medical man, well-esteemed, since those who know him give him this mark of their appreciation.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Good!” said Holmes. “Excellent!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Signet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305494532325,"sku":"NP9780451528018","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780451528018.jpg?v=1767739835","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-isbn-9780451528018","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}