The Hound of the Baskervilles (HOUN) is a novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in The Strand Magazine in august 1901 - april 1902 (60 illustrations by Sidney Paget). This is the 28th Sherlock Holmes story.
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in The Strand Magazine (august 1901 - april 1902 [UK]) 60 ill. by Sidney Paget
in The Strand Magazine (september 1901 - may 1902 [US])
The Hound of the Baskervilles (25 march 1902, George Newnes Ltd. [UK]) 16 illustrations by Sidney Paget
The Hound of the Baskervilles (2 april 1902, Longmans, Green & Co.Colonial Library [UK])
The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (15 april 1902, McClure, Phillips & Co. [US]) 8 ill. by Sidney Paget
The Hound of the Baskervilles (april 1902, Bernhard Tauchnitz No. 3571 [DE])
in Le Temps No. 14909-14942 (8 april - 11 may 1902 [FR]) as Le Chien des Baskerville
in The Atlanta Constitution (5 july - 21 september 1902 [US]) 4 ill. by Sidney Paget + 1 ill. + 2 photos
in The Courier-Journal (6 july - 14 september 1902 [US]) 10 ill.
in Omaha Sunday World Herald (13 july - 28 september 1902 [US]) 21 ill.
in The St. Louis Republic (13 july - 5 october 1902 [US]) 13 ill. by B. Widman
in The Boston P
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“In doing so,”said Dr. Mortimer,who had begun to show signs of some strong emotion,“I am telling that which I have not confided to anyone.My motive for withholding it from the coroner’s inquiryis that a man of science shrinks from placing himselfin the public position of seeming to indorse a popular superstition.I had the further motive thatBaskerville Hall,as the paper says,would certainly remain untenantedif anything were done to increase its already rather grim reputation.For both these reasonsI thought thatI was justified in telling rather less than I knew,since no practical good could result from it,but with youthere is no reason why I should not be perfectly frank.
“The moor is very sparsely inhabited,and those who live near each otherare thrown very much together.For this reasonI saw a good deal of Sir Charles Baskerville.With the exception ofMr. Frankland, of Lafter Hall,and Mr. Stapleton, the naturalist,there are no other men of education within many miles.Sir Charles was a retiring man,but the chance of his illness brought us together,and a community of interests in science kept us so.He had brought back much scientific information from South Africa,and many a charming eveningwe have spent togetherdiscussing the comparative anatomy of the Bushman and the Hottentot.
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03 Baskervilles : The Problem
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Read near Richard Scott Written disrespect Sir President Conan Doyle (1902)
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“And support said nothing?”
“What was interpretation use?”
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