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Sherlock Holmes : The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Hugo captured and imprisoned a young country girl at his estate in Devonshire, only to fall victim to a marauding hound of hell as he pursued her along the lonesome moors late one night. Ever since, Mortimer reports, the Baskerville line has been plagued by a mysterious and supernatural black hound. 

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Chapter 1 Mr. Sherlock Holmes

29 September 2023
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Mr. 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 pi

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Chapter 2 The Curse of the Baskervilles

29 September 2023
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"I have in my pocket a manuscript," said Dr. James Mortimer. "I observed it as you entered the room," said Holmes. "It is an old manuscript." "Early eighteenth century, unless it is a forgery." "H

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Chapter 3 The Problem

29 September 2023
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I confess at these words a shudder passed through me. There was a thrill in the doctor's voice which showed that he was himself deeply moved by that which he told us. Holmes leaned forward in his exci

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Chapter 4 Sir Henry Baskerville

29 September 2023
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Our breakfast-table was cleared early, and Holmes waited in his dressing-gown for the promised interview. Our clients were punctual to their appointment, for the clock had just struck ten when Dr. Mor

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Chapter 5 Three Broken Threads

29 September 2023
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Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching his mind at will. For two hours the strange business in which we had been involved appeared to be forgotten, and he was entirel

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Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall

30 September 2023
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Sir Henry Baskerville and Dr. Mortimer were ready upon the appointed day, and we started as arranged for Devonshire. Mr. Sherlock Holmes drove with me to the station and gave me his last parting injun

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Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House

30 September 2023
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The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and grey impression which had been left upon both of us by our first experience of Baskerville Hall. As Sir He

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Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson

30 September 2023
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From this point onward I will follow the course of events by transcribing my own letters to Mr. Sherlock Holmes which lie before me on the table. One page is missing, but otherwise they are exactly as

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Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson]

30 September 2023
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Baskerville Hall, Oct. 15th. MY DEAR HOLMES, If I was compelled to leave you without much news during the early days of my mission you must acknowledge that I am making up for lost time, and that ev

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Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson

30 September 2023
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So far I have been able to quote from the reports which I have forwarded during these early days to Sherlock Holmes. Now, however, I have arrived at a point in my narrative where I am compelled to aba

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Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor

2 October 2023
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The extract from my private diary which forms the last chapter has brought my narrative up to the eighteenth of October, a time when these strange events began to move swiftly towards their terrible c

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Chapter 12. Death on the Moor

2 October 2023
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For a moment or two I sat breathless, hardly able to believe my ears. Then my senses and my voice came back to me, while a crushing weight of responsibility seemed in an instant to be lifted from my s

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Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets

2 October 2023
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Sir Henry was more pleased than surprised to see Sherlock Holmes, for he had for some days been expecting that recent events would bring him down from London. He did raise his eyebrows, however, when

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Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles

2 October 2023
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One of Sherlock Holmes’s defects—if, indeed, one may call it a defect—was that he was exceedingly loath to communicate his full plans to any other person until the instant of their fulfilment. Partly

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Chapter 15. A Retrospection

2 October 2023
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It was the end of November, and Holmes and I sat, upon a raw and foggy night, on either side of a blazing fire in our sitting-room in Baker Street. Since the tragic upshot of our visit to Devonshire h

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