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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Paper book: €26.99

Digital: €10.99

Original publication
1902
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
433
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Crime and Thriller, Horror
Moods
Solve a mystery, Get the chills
Translated from
English

Book summary

An old legend says that a monstrous hound haunts the Baskerville family on the Devon moor. One evening, Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead, his face frozen in terror. Near him are the footprints of a gigantic hound. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are called in to protect his heir.

It is Sherlock Holmes's most famous case, amid fog, bogs and fear of the supernatural.

Full of suspense, it is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

Sir Charles Baskerville, a wealthy Englishman, is found dead near his manor house, on the edge of a wild moor. His doctor, Dr Mortimer, tells the detective Sherlock Holmes what he saw a short distance from the body.

The world of the book

A wild moor in England. The mystery unfolds on Dartmoor, a vast moor in south-west England, made of bare hills and granite rocks. In the middle lies a great mire where you can sink into the mud. The ruins of stone huts…

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