Classic: The Hound of the Baskervilles

• Author: A. C. Doyle (1859 – 1930)
• Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
• Published: 1902  (15 chapters, 128 pages)
  
• Audio book:  6 hr 26 min
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• Trivia: This book is nr 128 of 200 on  BBC’s
• The Big Read poll of UK’s ‘best-loved novel’.

 

Quickscan:

1. This is an eerie tale—the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles.
2. The devil-beast has haunted the lonely moors
3. …around the Baskervilles’ ancestral home.
4. The tale warned the descendants of that
5. …ancient family never to venture out on the moor.
6. Sherlock Holmes is called to the English moors
7. …to save Sir Henry Baskerville… from what?

 

Conclusion:

1. The book is a wonderful read on a hot summer day!
2. Every chapter is filled with Sherlock’s
3. scientific use of his imagination.
4. He balances probabilities and choose the most likely.
5. A chiming clock, rustle of the ivy on the wall
6. and the sob of a woman draws the reader further
7. …into the mystery of the grand House of Baskervilles!
8. Narrator:
9. Derek Jacobi is a recognizable British
   
10. voice that is warm in tone .
11. No gestures, no costumes, no set, nothing
12. to indicate anything except Jacobi
13. ..who lifts the words from the pages
14. …and into my imagination!
15. #Classic

 

Last Thoughts:

1. This was my first  Sherlock Holmes mystery.
2. I enjoyed the classic element used in many  mysteries:
3. characters withhold information or lie about it.
4. This added to the “Ah-ah’ feeling when I read the last
5. chapter in which Holmes explains details
6. …..I really missed!