The country doctor has come to 221B Baker Street, •the famous lodgings of Sherlock Holmes, with an eerie tale—the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the devil-beast that haunts the lonely moors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home. The tale warns the descendants of that ancient family never to venture out on the moor. But Sir Charles Baskerville is now dead—and the footprints of a giant hound are found near his body. Will the new heir of the Baskervilles meet the same dreadful fate? Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend, Dr. Watson, are faced with their most terrifying case in this wonderful classic of masterful detection and bone-chilling suspense. Source: OpenLibrary