The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson look into the death of Sir Charles Baskerville on Dartmoor and the old legend of a spectral hound said to haunt his family.

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Famous quotes

• It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

  Chapter 1In context

  • Genius
  • Inspiration

• I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.

  Chapter 2In context

  • Advice
  • Good & Evil

• Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!

  Chapter 2In context

  • Animals
  • Fear

• The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

  Chapter 3In context

  • Knowledge
  • Thinking

• The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

  Chapter 3In context

  • Good & Evil

• As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

  Chapter 4In context

  • Advice
  • Fear

• There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

  Chapter 5In context

  • Motivation & Goals

• The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

  Chapter 15In context

  • Facts
  • Thinking

Contents

1. Dedication
2. Chapter 1Mr. Sherlock Holmes
3. Chapter 2The Curse of the Baskervilles
4. Chapter 3The Problem
5. Chapter 4Sir Henry Baskerville
6. Chapter 5Three Broken Threads
7. Chapter 6Baskerville Hall
8. Chapter 7The Stapletons of Merripit House
9. Chapter 8First Report of Dr. Watson
10. Chapter 9The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson]
11. Chapter 10Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
12. Chapter 11The Man on the Tor
13. Chapter 12Death on the Moor
14. Chapter 13Fixing the Nets
15. Chapter 14The Hound of the Baskervilles
16. Chapter 15A Retrospection