The Hound of the Baskervilles.

A[rthur] Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles.

London:

George Newnes

1902

This is the first edition in book form after the serial publication. The Hound of the Baskervilles, besides being an exceptionally striking book with its cover design by Alfred Garth Jones, is widely viewed as Conan Doyle’s best and most popular Sherlock Holmes novel. Written eight years after Conan Doyle let Holmes die at the Reichenbach Falls, the book takes the form of a reminiscence of Watson set in the past. The plot revolves around a “gigantic hound” that is said to haunt the Baskerville family in the Devon moors. Of course, Holmes proves that the mystery has a perfectly rational explanation. A Haycraft-Queen selection.

From the Collection of Jeffrey Johnson