THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
by A. Conan Doyle
My dear Robinson,
It was to your account of a West-Country legend that this tale owes its inception. For this and for your help in the details all thanks.
Yours most truly,
A. Conan Doyle.
Hindhead,
Haslemere.
Contents
Chapter 1 Mr. Sherlock Holmes
Chapter 2 The Curse of the Baskervilles
Chapter 3 The Problem
Chapter 4 Sir Henry Baskerville
Chapter 5 Three Broken Threads
Chapter 6 Baskerville Hall
Chapter 7 The Stapletons of Merripit House
Chapter 8 First Report of Dr. Watson
Chapter 9 The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson]
Chapter 10 Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
Chapter ll The Man on the Tor
Chapter 12 Death on the Moor
Chapter 13 Fixing the Nets
Chapter 14 The Hound of the Baskervilles
Chapter 15 A Retrospection
Chapter 1.
Mr. Sherlock Holmes
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 picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a "Penang lawyer."
Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. "To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the
C.C.H.," was engraved upon it…