The Hound of the Baskervilles
The cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
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| Illustrator | Sidney Paget |
| Cover artist | Alfred Garth Jones |
| Language | English |
| Series | Sherlock Holmes |
| Genre | Detective fiction, Gothic fiction |
| Publisher | George Newnes Ltd |
Publication date | 25 March 1902 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Preceded by | The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes |
| Followed by | The Return of Sherlock Holmes |
| Text | The Hound of the Baskervilles at Wikisource |
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely in Dartmoor, Devon, in England's West Country and follows Holmes and Watson investigating the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.
One of the most famous stories ever written, in 2003, the book was listed as number 128 of 200 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel". In 1999, a poll of "Sherlockians" ranked it as the best of the four Holmes novels.