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Author Arthur Conan Doyle makes use of the old legend of a curse that reportedly runs in the Baskerville family to weave an astonishing tale of crime and murder, The Hound of the Baskervilles. An intense thriller, it is the third of the four crime novels by Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. It was originally published as a serial in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902.
Inspired by the fierce, diabolical hound of supernatural origin, Conan Doyle unfolds a mystery that Holmes and Watson investigate. This novel’s wide popularity can be judged by the fact that it was listed as number 128 out of 200 books on the BBC’s The Big Read poll that presents UK’s ‘best-loved novel’. The ardent supporters of Sherlock Holmes ranked it as the best of the four Holmes novels in 1999.
Dr. James Mortimer tells of the old legend to Sherlock Holmes and how Sir Hugo Baskerville was killed by a huge monstrous hound and he also feels that the dark, dangerous and mysterious creature haunt the mires of Dartmoor ever since, and is known to kill several Baskerville heirs. He also lets know about his friend Sir Charles Baskerville, who was found dead in the yew alley of his estate, Baskerville Hall, in the middle of Dartmoor. Mortimer is now apprehensive about Sir Henry Baskerville.
Holmes is incredulous about the legend but agrees to investigate the case out of curiosity. Holmes and Watson are witnesses to some inexplicable events during their stay and distant howls and strange sightings continue. Amid a taut and hair-raising chain of episodes and unnatural deaths, Holmes and Watson at last succeed in unravelling the complex mystery.
Author Arthur Conan Doyle makes use of the old legend of a curse that reportedly runs in the Baskerville family to weave an astonishing tale of crime and murder, The Hound of the Baskervilles. An intense thriller, it is the third of the four crime novels by Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. It was originally published as a serial in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902.
Inspired by the fierce, diabolical hound of supernatural origin, Conan Doyle unfolds a mystery that Holmes and Watson investigate. This novel’s wide popularity can be judged by the fact that it was listed as number 128 out of 200 books on the BBC’s The Big Read poll that presents UK’s ‘best-loved novel’. The ardent supporters of Sherlock Holmes ranked it as the best of the four Holmes novels in 1999.
Dr. James Mortimer tells of the old legend to Sherlock Holmes and how Sir Hugo Baskerville was killed by a huge monstrous hound and he also feels that the dark, dangerous and mysterious creature haunt the mires of Dartmoor ever since, and is known to kill several Baskerville heirs. He also lets know about his friend Sir Charles Baskerville, who was found dead in the yew alley of his estate, Baskerville Hall, in the middle of Dartmoor. Mortimer is now apprehensive about Sir Henry Baskerville.
Holmes is incredulous about the legend but agrees to investigate the case out of curiosity. Holmes and Watson are witnesses to some inexplicable events during their stay and distant howls and strange sightings continue. Amid a taut and hair-raising chain of episodes and unnatural deaths, Holmes and Watson at last succeed in unravelling the complex mystery.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a writer and doctor and still lives with us in our everyday mystery and conspiracy of life through his eternally famous, the great detective Sherlock Holmes. The mystery stories are so intensely and powerfully engaging that one cannot bear to put down his books before ravishing it in full at one single go. His stories expounding the mastery in logic and deduction catapulted Conan Doyle to colossal fame. His compulsive passion to crack the crimes, phenomenal deductive powers, his deep knowledge of music and plays and his acute scientific temperament is a perfect mixture that made his detective, Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most loved investigator. Conan Doyle’s creation of Holmes brought him such enormous success through these detective tales that it allowed Conan Doyle to give up his medical practice in 1891 and dedicate himself completely and wholeheartedly to writing.
Even after more than 125 years of his creation, Sherlock Holmes remains the most popular fictional detective in history. Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for the 60 odd stories that he concocted based on Sherlock Holmes. He has written short works covering both fictional and non-fictional, approximately 200 novels, short stories, poems, historical books, articles and pamphlets throughout his life.
Besides being a writer Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a physician as well. His Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the genre of crime fiction. Being a prolific writer; Conan attempted other fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and his wit and humour are expressed through the stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard. It is believed that Conan Doyle might have been inspired by the real-life character of Dr. Joseph Bell, one of his teachers at the medical school of Edinburgh University and ascribes a lot of his traits to flesh out the larger-than-life detective hero of Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle had met his professor when he was seventeen years old and Dr. Joseph Bell was around thirty-nine at that time. The doctor must have left a lasting impression on the mind of his young student to have come alive through his writing.
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Books have a magical and timeless appeal. They inform, educate and entertain us. We love and cherish the books we grow up with, and explore the fascinating world they present all through our lives.
Trove seeks to preserve the tradition of reading by publishing books from the past. It is a treasure chest of the most precious works across various genres. Our vision is to keep alive works that have stood the test of time and pass them on to the next generation of readers.
Readers can browse and purchase titles in the Trove collection, gleaned from the huge ocean of treasured writings in the public domain, and republished. What’s more, Trove books can be read on paper or screen as they are available in a variety of formats.
Trove goes to great lengths to recover and refurbish old content, so readers can discover them in all their glory. Some treasures are indeed found not in caves but between the covers of a book.
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Also from Trove
1. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
2. Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
3. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
4. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
5. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
6. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
8. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
9. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
10. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
11. Moby Dick or The Whale by Melville Herman
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14. Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
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20. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Visit us: www.trovebooks.in
Phone: +91-72002 58368
