Stapleton later apologizes.īarrymore, the butler, has a stern wife who sobs late at night. Stapleton interrupts them and, in a rage, accuses Sir Henry of bad intentions. They walk and talk, and he suggests marriage, but she rejects it. Sir Henry meets Beryl and grows fond of her. Watson encounters Stapleton, a naturalist who lives in a house on the moor with his beautiful sister Beryl, who warns Watson that Sir Henry must leave at once or risk being killed. The mansion is a gloomy place, and the surrounding moorland is equally eerie.

Watson and Holmes glimpse a bearded man in a carriage who hurries away, and they lose track of him. Holmes discovers that Sir Henry is being followed. At his hotel, he receives a note warning him to stay away from Baskerville Hall also, his boots begin to disappear, though one later reappears. Sir Charles’s nephew, Sir Henry Baskerville, arrives in London from Canada on his way to claim the estate. One night, he is found dead on his estate’s pathway alongside the moor, his face locked in a rictus of terror. The latest victim is Sir Charles Baskerville, who recently had heart trouble and was worried about family stories of the hound. John Watson receive a tall, angular surgeon named James Mortimer who tells them a harrowing tale of a great hound that haunts the moors of Devonshire and sometimes kills the heirs of Baskerville Manor. Sherlock Holmes and his best friend and assistant Dr. The 2017 AmazonClassics ebook edition forms the basis for this study guide. It has been adapted dozens of times into feature films and stage productions. First published in 1901 as a serial in The Strand magazine, The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third and most famous, of the original novels. The Holmes character, now in the public domain, appears in thousands of works of fiction, but the original series of 56 stories and four novels by Conan Doyle are touchstones for fans. Arguably history’s most storied detective, Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on film, TV, and stage more than any other fictional person.

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