Gil Walker's exciting illustrations were done especially for this edition. Those reading The Hound of the Baskervilles Ior the first time will soon understand why it has become a classic-why it remains one of the most enthralling adventures in crime detection ever written. Looking Glass Library is proud to present this new edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's celebrated story of the demon-hound whose un- earthly cry meant the fulfillmcnt of an ancient supernatural legend. villes suddenly assumed a sinister and dreadful reality.on the desolate windswept moors of Devonshire, the curse of the Hound of the Basker This book is included in Project Gutenberg. they might well bc dismissed as superstitious nonsense but later. The Hound of the Baskervilles, a tale of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was first published in. lenging and baffing case of his ca- reer.A few minutes later we had reached the lodge-gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars heads of the Baskervilles. These were the words that plunged Sherlock Holmes into the most chal Its master had risen and was staring with flushed cheeks and shining eyes. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered "Mr.
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