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’.
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- This is an eerie tale—the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles.
- The devil-beast has haunted the lonely moors
- …around the Baskervilles’ ancestral home.
- The tale warned the descendants of that
- …ancient family never to venture out on the moor.
- Sherlock Holmes is called to the English moors
- …to save Sir Henry Baskerville… from what?
Conclusion:
- The book is a wonderful read on a hot summer day!
- Every chapter is filled with Sherlock’s
- scientific use of his imagination.
- He balances probabilities and choose the most likely.
- A chiming clock, rustle of the ivy on the wall
- and the sob of a woman draws the reader further
- …into the mystery of the grand House of Baskervilles!
- Narrator:
- Derek Jacobi is a recognizable British
- voice that is warm in tone .
- No gestures, no costumes, no set, nothing
- to indicate anything except Jacobi
- ..who lifts the words from the pages
- …and into my imagination!
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Last Thoughts:
- This was my first Sherlock Holmes mystery.
- I enjoyed the classic element used in many mysteries:
- characters withhold information or lie about it.
- This added to the “Ah-ah’ feeling when I read the last
- chapter in which Holmes explains details
- …..I really missed!
This was a library book I borrowed again and again and again as a kid. Loved this book though it’s years since I last read it! But you’ve stirred a memory or three with this review – thanks!!!
It was just a fun read!
I love listening to Derek Jacobi….a British acting legend!
For a first Holmes story, this is a pretty good one. 🙂