The Hound of the Baskervilles

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 in 1889 largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Holmes and Watson investigate the case. 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.

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  London · United Kingdom
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  Princetown · United Kingdom

  Dartmoor town named directly in the text, near Baskerville Hall and the site of the prison referenced in the plot; Conan
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• Fox Tor Mire · United Kingdom

  Real Dartmoor bog identified as Conan Doyle's model for the deadly Grimpen Mire
• Grimspound · United Kingdom

  Bronze Age settlement on Dartmoor identified by scholars as the inspiration for the stone huts where Holmes hides on the