The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles is Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel, serialized in The Strand Magazine in 1901–1902 and issued as a book in 1902. The death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Holmes and Dr Watson into an investigation shadowed by an old family legend. Much of the story follows Watson on Dartmoor, where the landscape and the movements of the household deepen uncertainty. Letters, testimony, and small observed details gradually connect the apparently supernatural threat to human motives. Its combination of Gothic atmosphere and detective reasoning makes fear itself part of the mystery.