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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 largely in Dartmoor , Devon , in England's West Country and follows Holmes and Watson investigating ...
Based on a local legend of a spectral hound that haunted Dartmoor in Devonshire, England, the story is set in the moors at Baskerville Hall and the nearby Grimpen Mire, and the action takes place mostly at night, when the terrifying hound howls for blood.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (em português, O Cão dos Baskervilles) é um romance policial escrito por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tendo como protagonistas Sherlock Holmes e Dr. Watson. Publicado em 1902, a história era originalmente dividida em partes, impressas pela revista Strand Magazine de agosto de 1901 a Abril de 1902.
Once in Devonshire, Watson discovers a state of emergency, with armed guards on the watch for an escaped convict roaming the moors. He meets potential suspects in Mr. Barrymore and Mrs. Barrymore, the domestic help, and Mr. Jack Stapleton and his sister Beryl, Baskerville neighbors.
Hugo ruthlessly killed the woman, but he was quickly made to pay his due, as he was found shortly thereafter being devoured by a large, hellish hound. This hound, the legend states, will stalk and kill any Baskerville caught traversing the moors outside of Baskerville Hall at night for at least four generations: a veritable Baskerville curse.
The story is set in the moorlands of Devonshire, England, and follows Holmes and Dr. John Watson as they investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville and the ominous legend of a supernatural hound that haunts the Baskerville family.
