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The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

A visitor’s forgotten walking stick sets Holmes and Watson reasoning.

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Original language: EnglishLevel: Intermediate3,544 characters · ≈ 5 minSource: Project Gutenberg

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Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.” Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. “To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,” was engraved upon it, with the date “1884.” It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring.

“Well, Watson, what do you make of…

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About the book

The Hound of the Barkervilles is the third of Arthur Conan Doyle's four Sherlock Holmes crime novels. Set largely on Dartmoor in Devon, it follows Holmes and Watson as they investigate the legend of a fearsome hound of supernatural origin. A poll of Sherlockians in 1999 ranked it the best of the four Holmes novels.

About the author

Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician, best known for the four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson. His other notable works include The Lost World (1912), which introduced Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard.

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