The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-02) is Arthur Conan Doyle's
most celebrated Sherlock Holmes adventure. At the end of the yew
tree path of his ancestral home, Sir Charles Baskerville is found
dead. Close by are the footprints of a gigantic hound. Called to
investigate, Holmes seems to face a supernatural foe. In the tense
narration of the detective's efforts to solve the crime, Conan
Doyle meditates on late Victorian and early twentieth-century ideas
of ancestry and atavism, the possible biological determination of
criminals, the stability of the British landed classes, and the
place of the supernatural. Historical documents included with this
fully-annotated Broadview edition help contextualize the novel's
debates and reveal its cultural and literary significance as a
supreme instance of early detective fiction. Also included is the
Conan Doyle short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band."
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