Read by Tony Britton The Hound of the Baskervilles is the most celebrated tale of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s canon.A fiendish evil lurks amid the mist and loneliness of Devon’s fabled Dartmoor. In the form of a hellish hound it feeds upon the trembling flesh of the heirs of Baskerville Hall.But before this savage beast can sink its teeth into the newest lord of the manor it must pit its vicious fangs against the searing intellect of the most powerful foe it has ever encountered - the incomparable Sherlock Holmes.Dive into the world of the best fiction with The Hound of the Baskervilles. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's top-notch storytelling will transport you to the eerie Dartmoor where mystery lurks in every corner.For fans of Jules Verne (Around the World in Eighty Days) Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights) Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) Robert Holdstock (Mythago Wood) and Henry James (The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories).
Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. He was educated at Stoneyhurst and Edinburgh University where he qualified as a doctor. He practised at Southsea from 1882-1890, but from that date he... more
