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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock Holmes, the fastidious investigator who was always nattily attired with a long coat, cap and when in deep concentration, would have a long pipe clenched between his lips.  Holmes did not possess great athletic process, but did have an amazing intellect that enabled him to solve cases using shrewd deductive reasoning. One of Doyles most memorable detective  yarns was The Hound of the Baskervilles, which was first published in 1902. It was based on Doyles fascination with the legends that circulated across the moors of his  native Scotland. A friend had told him about one such legend that involved a supernatural dog, and as the old saying goes, the rest is literary history. The Hound  of the Baskervilles begins back in 1742 with the story of Sir Hugo Baskerville, the cruel and solitary master of the manor. People avoided him like the plague because  of his miserable disposition, but one young woman was not quite so fortunate. Hugo professed his love for the woman, and when she attempted to escape his advances, he  promptly locked her in one of his mansions upper chambers. A short time thereafter, her body was discovered, along with that of her tormentor, Sir Hugo Baskerville. According  to legend, a trio of men noticed that, "Standing over Hugo, and plucking at his throat, 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. And even as they looked the thing tore the throat out of Hugo Baskerville, on which, as it turned  its blazing eyes and dripping jaws upon them, the three shrieked with fear and rode for dear life, still screaming, across the moor. One, it is said, died that very