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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Tahera
My second time reading this story and I still felt the chill and goosebumps. It helped that since I last read it three years ago, I had forgotten some of the particular details of the story and hence, every new revelation was as new to me as when I read it the first time around.

Arthur Conan Doyle combines the mystery, bleakness, horror and danger of the moorland and the Grimpen Mire within it, the fear and terror of the dreaded Hound of the legend of Baskerville, and a murder to create one of th
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Michelle
Aug 13, 2013 rated it liked it
It was still a three for me all these years later. But it was a fun and warm reread. Reminding me why I loved mysteries. The adventure of fallowing the dective. Wondering if you were good enough to keep up or even figure it out before they do.
The enigmatic Sherlock. Brilliant and untouchable
The loyal Watson. The first bromance.
The young Baskerville from Canada. After all that's where all the Brits run away to.
The butler and his wife. Why are butlers always pale? Is it part of the requirements
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Bill Kupersmith
Oct 02, 2022 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: classics
Read it the first time at age ten. Still excellent though had some qualms at Holmes’ exposing Sir Henry to such danger. And Watson and Holmes going about with firearms . . . I had totally forgotten the villain and his motive, but I recalled how the special effects were managed
Jane
Jan 05, 2025 rated it it was amazing
The best of the Sherlock Holmes novels.
The Hound and the moor are the stars of this adventure.
Tom
Jul 18, 2024 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition

". . . there stood a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than any hound that ever-mortal eye has rested upon."

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in The Strand Magazine in August 1901 - April 1902 with 60 illustrations by Sidney Paget. This was the 27th Sherlock Holmes story.

Hands down he is by far my most favorite detective and with It being more than a century since Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print and capt
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Jen
Sep 20, 2007 rated it really liked it
Erin
Dec 09, 2007 rated it really liked it
Shelves: yay-childhood
Ruthie Jones
Sep 07, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Michelle Stockard Miller
May 09, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: owned, read-in-2013
Karigan
Jan 24, 2014 rated it it was ok
Tiffany
Sep 25, 2016 marked it as to-read
Lynndell
Apr 17, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Katie
Apr 24, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Henry
May 01, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: favorites
Tiffany
May 01, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Albert Elnen
Jan 18, 2018 is currently reading it
Producervan
Mar 09, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Emily Raymond
Apr 25, 2019 marked it as to-read
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Sep 02, 2020 marked it as to-read
James Haldiman
Jan 31, 2021 rated it really liked it
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La Tonya  Jordan
Apr 12, 2021 marked it as to-read
Jane
Dec 24, 2022 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Jon Nakapalau
Jun 28, 2023 marked it as to-read