The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Arthur Conan Doyle

Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville family's home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out "in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted." Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead, and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Will the new heir meet the same fate?<br><br><b>Author:</b> Arthur Conan Doyle<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Publishing Group<br><b>Published:</b> 03/15/1987<br><b>Pages:</b> 174<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.19lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 6.85h x 4.16w x 0.49d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780425104057<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 8.3<br><b>Point Value:</b> 11<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>5984 / Hound of the Baskervilles (Unabridged)<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>. His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenc