We owe 1902`s The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle`s good friend Fletcher Bobbles Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17thcentury aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, historyobsessed Dr. Frankland, butterflychasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone`s been signaling with candles from the mansion`s windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watsonleft alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novelsave the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound`s fangs?
El éxito y la popularidad conseguidos con sus personales - Sherlock Holmes, Watson, el profesor Challenger o el brigadier Gérard - inclinaron hacia la literatura al novelista británico sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), médico de profesión. Sin embargo, desempeñó tareas sanitarias dentro del ejército en la campaña de Sudán y en la guerra de los bóers. Además de renovar el género policiaco, creó novelas de anticipación como El mundo perdido.
