THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES(SHERLOCK HOLMES # 5)

AUTHOR: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

GENRE: DETECTIVE FICTION

NUMBER OF  PAGES: 256

HOLMES AND DR. WATSON 'S MOST TERRIFYING CASE YET. THE DEADLY BEAST THAT HAUNTS THE BASKERVILLE FAMILY IS BLAMED TO BE IN CHARGE  OF THE DEATH OF SIR CHARLES BASKERVILLE, THE LATEST FROM THE BASKERVILLE FAMILY. THE NEW HEIR , SIR HENRY BASKERVILLE GOES TO THE BASKERVILLE HALL LOCATED IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND WITH DR.WATSON. LATER, HOLMES JOINS THEM AND WITH DR. WATSON , HOLMES FINDS THE BODY OF A NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL KNOWN AS SELDON. HOLMES SUSPECTED JACK STAPLETON, AN ENTOMOLOGIST WHO HID THE HOUND IN THE GRIMPEN MIRE, A PLACE IN THE MOOR WHERE EVERYTHING VANISHED. JACK LURES HENRY TO HIS HOUSE AND WHEN HENRY LEAVES HE SENDS THE HOUND BEHIND HIM. THE HOUND ALMOST GNAWS HENRY'S THROAT OUT WHEN AT THE LAST SECOND HOLMES SHOT THE HOUND. THEY FIND JACK HIDING IN THE GRIMPEN MIRE AND THE NEXT MORNING HOLMES AND WATSON RETURN TO LONDON