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| rdfs:comment | - The Hound of the Baskervilles is a Sherlock Holmes mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was the third novel out of four to be written.
- In the novel, a country doctor named Mortimer from Dartmoor in Devonshire, the former physician and friend of the late Sir Charles Baskerville, travels to London to seek the advice of the famous detective and genius Sherlock Holmes. Although an inquest concluded that Sir Charles died from natural causes, Dr. Mortimer believes that his death may have had some connection to the Baskerville family curse. According to legend, as punishment for the evil deeds of their ancestor Sir Hugo Baskerville, a demonic hound will hunt down and kill any member of the Baskerville family who wanders onto the moor near Baskerville Hall at night. Holmes is skeptical about the existence of a curse or a diabolical dog. However, he suspects foul play in the death of Sir Charles Baskerville and believes that the l
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| abstract | - In the novel, a country doctor named Mortimer from Dartmoor in Devonshire, the former physician and friend of the late Sir Charles Baskerville, travels to London to seek the advice of the famous detective and genius Sherlock Holmes. Although an inquest concluded that Sir Charles died from natural causes, Dr. Mortimer believes that his death may have had some connection to the Baskerville family curse. According to legend, as punishment for the evil deeds of their ancestor Sir Hugo Baskerville, a demonic hound will hunt down and kill any member of the Baskerville family who wanders onto the moor near Baskerville Hall at night. Holmes is skeptical about the existence of a curse or a diabolical dog. However, he suspects foul play in the death of Sir Charles Baskerville and believes that the life of his nephew and heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, is genuinely in danger. Holmes sends his friend Dr. John Watson to Dartmoor, to protect Sir Henry and to begin an investigation. Tales of phantom black dogs, which are often associated with aristocratic families, are common in the folklore of many parts of England. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle acknowledged that he got the inspiration to write the novel after his friend, the journalist Bertram Fletcher Robinson, told him a story about one such ghostly hound. The Hound of the Baskervilles was not originally conceived as a Sherlock Holmes story, however, Doyle decided that he did not need to create a new character who was capable of solving the mystery surrounding the devilish dog since he already had one in the form of Holmes. The Hound of the Baskervilles is notable for being the first work which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Sherlock Holmes after having killed off the character in the 1893 short story "The Final Problem". However, Holmes is not technically brought back from the dead in The Hound of the Baskervilles because the events of the novel take place in the autumn of 1889, some two years before the May 1891 death of Holmes described in "The Final Problem". Partly as a result of the commercial success of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Doyle went on to write the 1903 short story "The Adventure of the Empty House", in which it is revealed that Holmes faked his own death, and continued to write more stories about the character until 1927. There have been numerous adaptations of The Hound of the Baskervilles to other media. The 1939 American film version, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, and the 1959 British film version, starring Peter Cushing and André Morrell, are much admired.
- The Hound of the Baskervilles is a Sherlock Holmes mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was the third novel out of four to be written.
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