Name: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Alma Junior Classics)
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9781847494962

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Alma Junior Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Illustrated by

David Mackintosh

Publisher

Alma Books

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 12.7 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781847494962

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Hound of the Baskervilles (Alma Junior Classics)"

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly and spectral. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle s The Hound of the Baskervilles follows the infamous Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson as they investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose dead body is found on the misty and desolate Devon moors.The locals blame his death on the legend of the fearsome phantom hound that they claim has haunted the Baskerville family for generations. When the heir to the Baskerville fortune, Sir Henry, also comes under threat Holmes detective skills are put to the test as he battles to discover the truth behind the legend and to solve one of the most macabre mysteries of his career."

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Edinburgh, 1859 - Crowborough, United Kingdom, 1930) considered the master of detective literature was a writer and doctor born in Scotland, mainly known for having created the very famous character Sherlock Holmes, the most well-known detective of all times, cyclically adapted for TV and cinema

He studied at the universities of Stonyhurst and Edinburgh, where he graduated in medicine. Between 1882 and 1890, he worked as a doctor in Southsea, England.

To supplement his meager income, he wrote a mystery novel titled A Study in Scarlet, which became the first of sixty-eight stories featuring one of the most famous detectives in literature: Sherlock Holmes.

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