The Hound of the Baskervilles

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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 …

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Esta novela es una de las cumbres de Conan Doyle, si no la mayor. Es capaz de mantener al lector atrapado sin resistirse a seguir leyendo capítulo tras capítulo. Al contrario que en otros autores de misterio, no es, en mi opinión, tan extraordinario el misterio en sí, o su resolución más o menos sorpresiva, como la tensión narrativa y la trama de historias secundarias que va tejiendo. A pesar de ser el autor un apasionado del espiritismo y otras "ciencias" ocultas, no cayó en el error de hacer una simple historia de miedo, sino que guía a Holmes y Watson (el verdadero protagonista esta vez) en todo momento por los caminos de la deducción y la lógica para crear una obra fascinante. Imprescindible.

Subjects

  • crime novel
  • English Civil War
  • mires
  • tors
  • tombs
  • Dogs
  • England, fiction
  • Holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), fiction
  • Watson, john h. (fictitious character), fiction
  • British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
  • Private investigators, fiction
  • Holmes, Sherlock -- Fiction
  • Watson, John H. (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Sherlock Holmes (Fictitious character)
  • Fiction
  • Private investigators
  • Blessing and cursing
  • Children's non-fiction
  • Animals
  • Doyle, arthur conan, sir, 1859-1930
  • Literary landmarks
  • Dartmoor (england)
  • England, guidebooks
  • England, in literature
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • Fiction, crime
  • Children's fiction
  • Mystery and detective stories
  • Dogs, fiction
  • Large type books
  • English Detective and mystery stories
  • Adaptations
  • Drama
  • English fiction
  • Translations into Irish
  • Classic Literature
  • Murder
  • Mystery
  • Conclusions
  • amorality
  • Anglo-Saxons
  • Apaces
  • aristocracy
  • banks
  • barques
  • beryls
  • brain fever
  • bushrangers
  • cabinet cards
  • carbuncles
  • Christmas dinners
  • churches
  • Classic fiction
  • Classics
  • commissionaires
  • Confederate States Army
  • coronets
  • counterfeit money
  • crime
  • Crime & Mystery Fiction
  • darkrooms
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • detective fiction
  • electric blue
  • Encyclopædia Britannica
  • English Children's stories
  • English Mastiffs
  • English Short stories
  • footprints
  • Fuller's earth
  • governesses
  • half-pennies
  • History
  • Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
  • hydraulic presses
  • jewellery
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Juvenile literature
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • lascars
  • locked-room mysteries
  • maids
  • Mystery and Suspense
  • opium dens
  • pawnbrokers
  • pennies
  • police inspectors
  • prima donnas
  • Private investigators in fiction
  • prospecting
  • red hair
  • revolvers
  • sailing ships
  • Short Stories
  • smoke bombs
  • snow
  • thumbs
  • John H. Watson (Fictitious character)
  • Long now manual for civilization

Places

  • Devon (England)
  • England
  • Canada
  • Dartmoor (England)
  • Dartmoor Prison
  • Scotland Yard
  • London (England)
  • Baskerville Hall
  • Copper Beeches
  • Hampshire
  • Winchester
  • Streetham
  • Hyde Park
  • Serpentine
  • London
  • 221B Baker Street
  • Alpha Inn
  • British Museum
  • Covent Garden
  • Brixton
  • Upper Swandam Lane
  • River Thames
  • Horsham
  • West Sussex
  • United States
  • Florida
  • Pondicherry
  • India
  • Dundee
  • Georgia
  • Texas
  • Savannah
  • North Atlantic
  • Boscombe Valley
  • Herefordshire
  • Australia
  • Boscombe Pool
  • Hatherley Farm
  • Victoria
  • Ballarat
  • Leadenhall Street
  • Baker Street
  • Bohemia
  • Scandinavia
  • Warsaw
  • Church of St. Monica
  • Edgware Road
  • Charing Cross railway station