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conversations.value: Let's first examine the available evidence: one great mystery,with Sherlock Holmes at his finest; an eerily atmospheric tale set onthe English moors; and a spectacular narrator in Sir Derek Jacobi. Andnow, the particulars: Sir Derek approaches the book as a challenge,giving emotion and psychological weight to both Holmes and Watsonwhile creating memorable voices for each of the other characters. Heleads us through the maze of clues with expert pacing, never lettingus know which are real and which are red herrings. Jacobi's voicereaches a crescendo as we near the d&eacute;nouement and then softens asthe tale concludes. The result? A wonderful experience that'selementary, dear reader, elementary. R.I.G. &copy; AudioFile 2003,Portland, Maine-- Copyright &#169; AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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conversations.value: The master of deduction, Sherlock Holmes, and his acolyte, Dr Watson, are here adapted into graphic novel form - a refreshing transformation which seems 'elementary' for books that have previously been made into films with suspenseful storylines and strong visual elements. Full of intrigue and witty characterisation, The Hound of the Baskervilles takes readers to the Devon moors, where Holmes has to use all his logic to prove that the hound seen near Sir Charles Baskerville's dead body was not the supernatural manifestation of a curse, but the instrument of an earthly murder.
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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled The Hound of the Baskervilles about Sherlock, Holmes, Conan with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery.. Start with the sentence 'the author (1859-1930) devoted some of his spare time in medical school to writing short stories'.
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conversations.value: the author (1859-1930) devoted some of his spare time in medical school to writing short stories. Times were tough in the early stages of his medical career so he took the task of writing short stories in order to stay busy. The character of Sherlock Holmes was introduced in 1887. the author soon realized that he could achieve more success from the short stories about Sherlock Holmes than the success achieved from his medical practice. the author went on to write a number of very popular literary works including A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Return of Sherlock Holmes. During his tenure as a student in the school of medicine, Conan the author had the pleasure of being a witness to his professor's ability of being able to identify even the slightest details about the conditions of his patients. the author would later use his professor as a guideline when he created the character of Sherlock Holmes. Thanks in part to Conan the author, we now have the Detective Story as one of the famous categories in literature.
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conversations.value: The Hound of the Baskervilles: Dr.\nJames Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville.\nSir Charles was found dead on the grounds of his Devonshire estate, Baskerville Hall, and Mortimer now fears for Sir Charles\'s nephew and sole heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, who is the new master of Baskerville Hall.\nThe death was attributed to a heart attack, but Mortimer is suspicious, because Sir Charles died with an expression of horror on his face, and Mortimer noticed "the footprints of a gigantic hound" nearby.\nThe Baskerville family has supposedly been under a curse since the era of the English Civil War, when ancestor Hugo Baskerville allegedly offered his soul to the devil for help in abducting a woman and was reportedly killed by a giant spectral hound.\nSir Charles believed in the curse and was apparently fleeing from something in fright when he died.\nIntrigued, Holmes meets with Sir Henry, newly arrived from Canada.\nSir Henry has received an anonymous note, cut and pasted from newsprint, warning him away from the Baskerville moors, and one of his new boots is inexplicably missing from his London hotel room.\nThe Baskerville family is discussed: Sir Charles was the eldest of three brothers; the youngest, black sheep Rodger, is believed to have died childless in South America, while Sir Henry is the only child of the middle brother.\nSir Henry plans to move into Baskerville Hall, despite the ominous warning message.\nHolmes and dr Watson follow him from Holmes\'s Baker Street apartment back to his hotel and notice a bearded man following him in a cab; they pursue the man, but he escapes.\nMortimer tells them that mr Barrymore, the butler at Baskerville Hall, has a beard like the one on the stranger.\nSir Henry\'s boot reappears, but an older one vanishes.\nHolmes sends for the cab driver who shuttled the bearded man after Sir Henry, and is both astounded and amused to learn that the stranger had made a point of giving his name as \'Sherlock Holmes\' to the cabbie.\nHolmes, now even more interested in the Baskerville affair but held up with other cases, dispatches Watson to accompany Sir Henry to Baskerville Hall with instructions to send him frequent reports about the house, grounds, and neighbors.\nUpon arrival at the grand but austere Baskerville estate, Watson and Sir Henry learn that an escaped murderer named Selden is believed to be in the area.\nBarrymore and his wife, who also works at Baskerville Hall, wish to leave the estate soon.\nWatson hears a woman crying in the night; it is obvious to him that it was mrs Barrymore, but her husband denies it.\nWatson has no proof that Barrymore was in Devon on the day of the chase in London.\nHe meets a brother and sister who live nearby: mr Stapleton, a naturalist, and the beautiful Miss Stapleton.\nWhen an animalistic sound is heard, Stapleton is quick to dismiss it as unrelated to the legendary hound.\nWhen her brother is out of earshot, Mrs Stapleton mistakes Watson for Sir Henry and warns him to leave.\nSir Henry and she later meet and quickly fall in love, arousing Stapleton\'s anger; he later apologizes and invites Sir Henry to dine with him a few days later.\nBarrymore arouses further suspicion when Watson and Sir Henry catch him at night with a candle in an empty room.\nBarrymore refuses to answer their questions, but mrs Barrymore confesses that Selden is her brother, and her husband is signalling that they have left supplies for him.\nWatson and Sir Henry pursue Selden on the moor, but he eludes them, while Watson notices another man on a nearby tor.\nAfter an agreement is reached to allow Selden to flee the country, Barrymore reveals the contents of an incompletely burnt letter asking Sir Charles to be at the gate at the time of his death.\nIt was signed with the initialsL.\n; on Mortimer\'s advice, Watson questions a Laura Lyons, who admits to writing the letter in hopes that Sir Charles would help finance her divorce, but says she did not keep the appointment.\nWatson tracks the second man he saw in the area and discovers it to be Holmes, investigating independently in hopes of a faster resolution.\nHolmes reveals further information: Stapleton is actually married to the supposed Miss Stapleton, and he promised marriage to Laura Lyons to get her cooperation.\nThey hear a scream and discover the body of Selden, dead from a fall.\nThey initially mistake him for Sir Henry, whose old clothes he was wearing.\nAt Baskerville Hall, Holmes notices a resemblance between Stapleton and a portrait of Hugo Baskerville.\nHe realises that Stapleton could be an unknown Baskerville family member, seeking to claim the Baskerville wealth by eliminating his relatives.\nAccompanied by Inspector Lestrade, whom Holmes has summoned, Holmes and Watson travel to the Stapleton home, where Sir Henry is dining.\nThey rescue him from a hound that Stapleton releases while Sir Henry is walking home across the moor.\nShooting the animal dead in the struggle, Sherlock reveals that it was a perfectly mortal dog - a mix of bloodhound and mastiff, painted with phosphorus to give it a hellish appearance.\nThey find Miss Stapleton bound and gagged inside the house, while Stapleton apparently dies in an attempt to reach his hideout in a nearby mire.\nThey also find Sir Henry\'s boot, which was used to give the hound Sir Henry\'s scent.\nWeeks later, Holmes provides Watson with additional details about the case.\nStapleton was in fact Rodger Baskerville\'s son, also named Rodger.\nHis now-widow is a South American woman, the former Beryl Garcia.\nHe supported himself through crime for many years, before learning that he could inherit a fortune by murdering his uncle and cousin.\nStapleton had taken Sir Henry\'s old boot because the new, unworn boot lacked his scent.\nThe hound had pursued Selden to his death because of the scent on Sir Henry\'s old clothes.\nmrs Stapleton had disavowed her husband\'s plot, so he had imprisoned her to prevent her from interfering.\nThe story ends with Holmes and Watson leaving to see the opera Les Huguenots starring Jean de Reszke.
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conversations.value: \nThe story ends with Holmes and Watson leaving to see the opera Les Huguenots starring Jean de Reszke..\nmrs Stapleton had disavowed her husband\'s plot, so he had imprisoned her to prevent her from interfering.\nThe hound had pursued Selden to his death because of the scent on Sir Henry\'s old clothes.\nStapleton had taken Sir Henry\'s old boot because the new, unworn boot lacked his scent.\nHe supported himself through crime for many years, before learning that he could inherit a fortune by murdering his uncle and cousin.\nHis now-widow is a South American woman, the former Beryl Garcia.\nStapleton was in fact Rodger Baskerville\'s son, also named Rodger.\nWeeks later, Holmes provides Watson with additional details about the case.\nThey also find Sir Henry\'s boot, which was used to give the hound Sir Henry\'s scent.\nThey find Miss Stapleton bound and gagged inside the house, while Stapleton apparently dies in an attempt to reach his hideout in a nearby mire.\nShooting the animal dead in the struggle, Sherlock reveals that it was a perfectly mortal dog - a mix of bloodhound and mastiff, painted with phosphorus to give it a hellish appearance.\nThey rescue him from a hound that Stapleton releases while Sir Henry is walking home across the moor.\nAccompanied by Inspector Lestrade, whom Holmes has summoned, Holmes and Watson travel to the Stapleton home, where Sir Henry is dining.\nHe realises that Stapleton could be an unknown Baskerville family member, seeking to claim the Baskerville wealth by eliminating his relatives.\nAt Baskerville Hall, Holmes notices a resemblance between Stapleton and a portrait of Hugo Baskerville.\nThey initially mistake him for Sir Henry, whose old clothes he was wearing.\nThey hear a scream and discover the body of Selden, dead from a fall.\nHolmes reveals further information: Stapleton is actually married to the supposed Miss Stapleton, and he promised marriage to Laura Lyons to get her cooperation.\nWatson tracks the second man he saw in the area and discovers it to be Holmes, investigating independently in hopes of a faster resolution.\n; on Mortimer\'s advice, Watson questions a Laura Lyons, who admits to writing the letter in hopes that Sir Charles would help finance her divorce, but says she did not keep the appointment.\nIt was signed with the initialsL.\nAfter an agreement is reached to allow Selden to flee the country, Barrymore reveals the contents of an incompletely burnt letter asking Sir Charles to be at the gate at the time of his death.\nWatson and Sir Henry pursue Selden on the moor, but he eludes them, while Watson notices another man on a nearby tor.\nBarrymore refuses to answer their questions, but mrs Barrymore confesses that Selden is her brother, and her husband is signalling that they have left supplies for him.\nBarrymore arouses further suspicion when Watson and Sir Henry catch him at night with a candle in an empty room.\nSir Henry and she later meet and quickly fall in love, arousing Stapleton\'s anger; he later apologizes and invites Sir Henry to dine with him a few days later.\nWhen her brother is out of earshot, Mrs Stapleton mistakes Watson for Sir Henry and warns him to leave.\nWhen an animalistic sound is heard, Stapleton is quick to dismiss it as unrelated to the legendary hound.\nHe meets a brother and sister who live nearby: mr Stapleton, a naturalist, and the beautiful Miss Stapleton.\nWatson has no proof that Barrymore was in Devon on the day of the chase in London.\nWatson hears a woman crying in the night; it is obvious to him that it was mrs Barrymore, but her husband denies it.\nBarrymore and his wife, who also works at Baskerville Hall, wish to leave the estate soon.\nUpon arrival at the grand but austere Baskerville estate, Watson and Sir Henry learn that an escaped murderer named Selden is believed to be in the area.\nHolmes, now even more interested in the Baskerville affair but held up with other cases, dispatches Watson to accompany Sir Henry to Baskerville Hall with instructions to send him frequent reports about the house, grounds, and neighbors.\nHolmes sends for the cab driver who shuttled the bearded man after Sir Henry, and is both astounded and amused to learn that the stranger had made a point of giving his name as \'Sherlock Holmes\' to the cabbie.\nSir Henry\'s boot reappears, but an older one vanishes.\nMortimer tells them that mr Barrymore, the butler at Baskerville Hall, has a beard like the one on the stranger.\nHolmes and dr Watson follow him from Holmes\'s Baker Street apartment back to his hotel and notice a bearded man following him in a cab; they pursue the man, but he escapes.\nSir Henry plans to move into Baskerville Hall, despite the ominous warning message.\nThe Baskerville family is discussed: Sir Charles was the eldest of three brothers; the youngest, black sheep Rodger, is believed to have died childless in South America, while Sir Henry is the only child of the middle brother.\nSir Henry has received an anonymous note, cut and pasted from newsprint, warning him away from the Baskerville moors, and one of his new boots is inexplicably missing from his London hotel room.\nIntrigued, Holmes meets with Sir Henry, newly arrived from Canada.\nSir Charles believed in the curse and was apparently fleeing from something in fright when he died.\nThe Baskerville family has supposedly been under a curse since the era of the English Civil War, when ancestor Hugo Baskerville allegedly offered his soul to the devil for help in abducting a woman and was reportedly killed by a giant spectral hound.\nThe death was attributed to a heart attack, but Mortimer is suspicious, because Sir Charles died with an expression of horror on his face, and Mortimer noticed "the footprints of a gigantic hound" nearby.\nSir Charles was found dead on the grounds of his Devonshire estate, Baskerville Hall, and Mortimer now fears for Sir Charles\'s nephew and sole heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, who is the new master of Baskerville Hall.\nJames Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville.The Hound of the Baskervilles: Dr
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conversations.value: The Hound of the Baskervilles: Dr.\nJames Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville.\nSir Charles was found dead on the grounds of his Devonshire estate, Baskerville Hall, and Mortimer now fears for Sir Charles\'s nephew and sole heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, who is the new master of Baskerville Hall.\nThe death was attributed to a heart attack, but Mortimer is suspicious, because Sir Charles died with an expression of horror on his face, and Mortimer noticed "the footprints of a gigantic hound" nearby.\nThe Baskerville family has supposedly been under a curse since the era of the English Civil War, when ancestor Hugo Baskerville allegedly offered his soul to the devil for help in abducting a woman and was reportedly killed by a giant spectral hound.\nSir Charles believed in the curse and was apparently fleeing from something in fright when he died.\nIntrigued, Holmes meets with Sir Henry, newly arrived from Canada.\nSir Henry has received an anonymous note, cut and pasted from newsprint, warning him away from the Baskerville moors, and one of his new boots is inexplicably missing from his London hotel room.\nThe Baskerville family is discussed: Sir Charles was the eldest of three brothers; the youngest, black sheep Rodger, is believed to have died childless in South America, while Sir Henry is the only child of the middle brother.\nSir Henry plans to move into Baskerville Hall, despite the ominous warning message.\nHolmes and dr Watson follow him from Holmes\'s Baker Street apartment back to his hotel and notice a bearded man following him in a cab; they pursue the man, but he escapes.\nMortimer tells them that mr Barrymore, the butler at Baskerville Hall, has a beard like the one on the stranger.\nSir Henry\'s boot reappears, but an older one vanishes.\nHolmes sends for the cab driver who shuttled the bearded man after Sir Henry, and is both astounded and amused to learn that the stranger had made a point of giving his name as \'Sherlock Holmes\' to the cabbie.\nHolmes, now even more interested in the Baskerville affair but held up with other cases, dispatches Watson to accompany Sir Henry to Baskerville Hall with instructions to send him frequent reports about the house, grounds, and neighbors.\nUpon arrival at the grand but austere Baskerville estate, Watson and Sir Henry learn that an escaped murderer named Selden is believed to be in the area.\nBarrymore and his wife, who also works at Baskerville Hall, wish to leave the estate soon.\nWatson hears a woman crying in the night; it is obvious to him that it was mrs Barrymore, but her husband denies it.\nWatson has no proof that Barrymore was in Devon on the day of the chase in London.\nHe meets a brother and sister who live nearby: mr Stapleton, a naturalist, and the beautiful Miss Stapleton.\nWhen an animalistic sound is heard, Stapleton is quick to dismiss it as unrelated to the legendary hound.\nWhen her brother is out of earshot, Mrs Stapleton mistakes Watson for Sir Henry and warns him to leave.\nSir Henry and she later meet and quickly fall in love, arousing Stapleton\'s anger; he later apologizes and invites Sir Henry to dine with him a few days later.\nBarrymore arouses further suspicion when Watson and Sir Henry catch him at night with a candle in an empty room.\nBarrymore refuses to answer their questions, but mrs Barrymore confesses that Selden is her brother, and her husband is signalling that they have left supplies for him.\nWatson and Sir Henry pursue Selden on the moor, but he eludes them, while Watson notices another man on a nearby tor.\nAfter an agreement is reached to allow Selden to flee the country, Barrymore reveals the contents of an incompletely burnt letter asking Sir Charles to be at the gate at the time of his death.\nIt was signed with the initialsL.\n; on Mortimer\'s advice, Watson questions a Laura Lyons, who admits to writing the letter in hopes that Sir Charles would help finance her divorce, but says she did not keep the appointment.\nWatson tracks the second man he saw in the area and discovers it to be Holmes, investigating independently in hopes of a faster resolution.\nHolmes reveals further information: Stapleton is actually married to the supposed Miss Stapleton, and he promised marriage to Laura Lyons to get her cooperation.\nThey hear a scream and discover the body of Selden, dead from a fall.\nThey initially mistake him for Sir Henry, whose old clothes he was wearing.\nAt Baskerville Hall, Holmes notices a resemblance between Stapleton and a portrait of Hugo Baskerville.\nHe realises that Stapleton could be an unknown Baskerville family member, seeking to claim the Baskerville wealth by eliminating his relatives.\nAccompanied by Inspector Lestrade, whom Holmes has summoned, Holmes and Watson travel to the Stapleton home, where Sir Henry is dining.\nThey rescue him from a hound that Stapleton releases while Sir Henry is walking home across the moor.\nShooting the animal dead in the struggle, Sherlock reveals that it was a perfectly mortal dog - a mix of bloodhound and mastiff, painted with phosphorus to give it a hellish appearance.\nThey find Miss Stapleton bound and gagged inside the house, while Stapleton apparently dies in an attempt to reach his hideout in a nearby mire.\nThey also find Sir Henry\'s boot, which was used to give the hound Sir Henry\'s scent.\nWeeks later, Holmes provides Watson with additional details about the case.\nStapleton was in fact Rodger Baskerville\'s son, also named Rodger.\nHis now-widow is a South American woman, the former Beryl Garcia.\nHe supported himself through crime for many years, before learning that he could inherit a fortune by murdering his uncle and cousin.\nStapleton had taken Sir Henry\'s old boot because the new, unworn boot lacked his scent.\nThe hound had pursued Selden to his death because of the scent on Sir Henry\'s old clothes.\nmrs Stapleton had disavowed her husband\'s plot, so he had imprisoned her to prevent her from interfering.\nThe story ends with Holmes and Watson leaving to see the opera Les Huguenots starring Jean de Reszke.
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conversations.value: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film): The film begins in a theater, where a pianist (Moore) begins to play a piano accompaniment to the actual film being shown in the theater.\nHolmes (Cook) has just restored a stolen artifact to three French nuns, and is later called on a case by dr Mortimer (Terry-Thomas) concerning Sir Henry Baskerville (Kenneth Williams) and a legendary hound that curses the Baskerville estate.\nTired and worn out by so many cases, Holmes passes the case onto dr Watson (Moore), who is portrayed as a Welsh eccentric.\nUpon arriving at the station, Sir Henry, dr Mortimer, Watson and Perkins (their driver) are halted by a policeman (Spike Milligan), who warns them of a murderer stalking the moors, before sending the group on their way.\nWhile out in the moor collecting specimens, Watson has a curious encounter in a hut with the raving mr Frankland (Hugh Griffith) and Frankland\'s exceedingly strong daughter, Mary (Dana Gillespie ).\nIn the next scene, we see Holmes still in London, visiting Ada, his mother (also played by Dudley Moore), who, as a bogus spiritualist aided by her housekeeper, Iris, scams older ladies of their money in false seances.\nHolmes\' mother is concerned that "Watty" (Watson) may need help, and that "Sherl" (as she calls her son), should rush to his aid.\nIn next scene, Holmes interviews the one-legged mr Spiggot (also played by Dudley Moore) to act as a runner on the moor.\nIn the next scene, while wandering on the moors, Watson happens upon mr Stapleton (Denholm Elliott), who mistakes him for Sir Henry.\nStapleton\'s sister (Joan Greenwood) describes dramatically her encounter with the Hound on the moor, suggesting that it ravished her, whereupon she attempts to force herself upon the reluctant Watson, with Miss Stapleton undergoing supernatural transformations reminiscent of The Exorcist.\nThe Barrymores (Max Wall and Irene Handl) at Baskerville Hall mistreat Sir Henry and Watson, feeding them only cheese and water and then throwing them into a small bedroom, ankle-deep in water.\nWatson then goes to the village to send a message to Holmes (who is during this time visiting his cranky mother), and meets mr Stapleton of Merripit Hall.\nStapleton is carrying a chihuahua that proceeds to urinate in Watson\'s pocket and face.\nArriving at Merripit Hall, Watson meets the eccentric mrs Stapleton, who displays surreal symptoms suggesting demonic possession.\nLate at night, Sir Henry and Watson discover the Seldons and the escaped murderer, whom Watson recognizes as mrs Barrymore\'s brother Ethel Seldon (Roy Kinnear), having a family dinner.\nOddly enough, neither of the men seems to panic at this.\nAfterward, Holmes arrives and examines the case so far.\nAn invitation arrives for Sir Henry, asking him to dinner at Merripit Hall.\nSuspecting a trap, Watson goes along with Sir Henry while Holmes observes carefully.\nmrs Stapleton resumes her bizarre acts and begins to vomit pale-blue liquid over Sir Henry, whilst mr Stapleton\'s chihuahua urinates in Watson\'s soup.\nOrdered to leave in disgrace, the Stapletons, dr Mortimer, mr Frankland, and his daughter Mary follow Sir Henry and Watson to kill them, but become trapped in a quagmire.\nHolmes then proceeds to reveal that the Hound is no more than a large, rather friendly Irish wolfhound owned by the late Sir Charles Baskerville, whose excited barking was misinterpreted as a monstrous beast.\nHe also states that the dog is the sole heir of Sir Charles.\nWith the dog gone, the would-be murderers would have gained the Baskerville fortune and the estate.\nThe film ends on the pianist, who is then hit by vegetables from the audience.
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conversations.value: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film): Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and dr John Watson (Nigel Bruce) receive a visit from dr James Mortimer (Lionel Atwill), who wishes to consult them before the arrival of Sir Henry Baskerville (Richard Greene), the last of the Baskervilles, heir to the Baskerville estate in Devonshire.\ndr Mortimer is anxious about letting Sir Henry go to Baskerville Hall, owing to a supposed family curse.\nHe tells Holmes and Watson the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, a demonic dog that first killed Sir Hugo Baskerville (Ralph Forbes) several hundred years ago (seen in flashback) and is believed to kill all Baskervilles in the region of Devonshire.\nHolmes dismisses it as a fairy tale, but Mortimer narrates the events of the recent death of his best friend, Sir Charles Baskerville, Sir Henry\'s uncle.\nAlthough he was found dead in his garden without any trace of physical damage, Sir Charles\'s face was distorted as if he died in utter terror, from heart failure.\nHe alone had noticed footprints at some distance from the body when it was found; they were the paw marks of a gigantic hound.\nHolmes decides to send Watson to Baskerville Hall along with Sir Henry, claiming that he is too busy to accompany them himself.\nSir Henry quickly develops a romantic interest in Beryl Stapleton (Wendy Barrie), the step-sister of his neighbour Jack Stapleton (Morton Lowry), a local naturalist.\nMeanwhile, a homicidal maniac (Nigel De Brulier), escaped from Dartmoor Prison, lurks on the moor.\nHolmes eventually makes an appearance, having been hiding in the vicinity for some time making his own investigation.\nAn effective scene, not in the original book, occurs when Watson and Sir Henry attend a seance held by mrs Mortimer (Beryl Mercer).\nIn a trance, she asks, "What happened that night on the moor, Sir Charles.\n" The only reply is a lone howl, possibly from a hound.\nAfter some clever deception by Holmes, he surmises that the true criminal is Stapleton, a long-lost cousin of the Baskervilles, who hopes to claim their vast fortune himself after removing all other members of the bloodline.\nStapleton kept a huge, half-starved, vicious dog (played by a Great Dane) trained to attack individual members of the Baskervilles after prolonged exposure to their scent.\nHowever, when the hound is finally sent to kill Sir Henry Baskerville, Holmes and Watson arrive to save him just in time.\nThey kill the hound.\nStapleton then traps Holmes down in the hound\'s underground kennel, and sends Watson into the moor to meet Holmes.\nHolmes cuts his way out of the kennel and returns to the house and destroys the poison that Stapleton had just given to the wounded Baskerville.\nStapleton pulls a gun and flees.\nHolmes says ominously, "He won\'t get very far.\nI\'ve posted constables along the roads and the only other way is across the Grimpen Mire".\nHolmes is praised for his work on the case, and he turns in.
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conversations.value: The Hound of the Baskervilles
  Barrymore was crouching at the window with the candle held against the glass. His profile was half turned towards me, and his face seemed to be rigid with expectation as he stared out into the blackness of the moor. For some minutes he stood watching intently. Then he gave a deep groan and with an impatient gesture he put out the light. Instantly I made my way back to my room, and very shortly came the stealthy steps passing once more upon their return journey. Long afterwards when I had fallen into a light sleep I heard a key turn somewhere in a lock, but I could not tell whence the sound came. What it all means I cannot guess, but there is some secret business going on in this house of gloom which sooner or later we shall get to the bottom of. I do not trouble you with my theories, for you asked me to furnish you only with facts. I have had a long talk with Sir Henry this morning, and we have made a plan of campaign founded upon my observations of last night. I will not speak about it just now, but it should make my next report interesting reading.
  If I was compelled to leave you without much news during the early days of my mission you must acknowledge that I am making up for lost time, and that events are now crowding thick and fast upon us. In my last report I ended upon my top note with Barrymore at the window, and now I have quite a budget already which will, unless I am much mistaken, considerably surprise you. Things have taken a turn which I could not have anticipated. In some ways they have within the last forty-eight hours become much clearer and in some ways they have become more complicated. But I will tell you all and you shall judge for yourself.
  Before breakfast on the morning following my adventure I went down the corridor and examined the room in which Barrymore had been on the night before. The western window through which he had stared so intently has, I noticed, one peculiarity above all other windows in the house—it commands the nearest outlook on to the moor. There is an opening between two trees which enables one from this point of view to look right down upon it, while from all the other windows it is only a distant glimpse which can be obtained. It follows, therefore, that Barrymore, since only this window would serve the purpose, must have been looking out for something or somebody upon the moor. The night was very dark, so that I can hardly imagine how he could have hoped to see anyone. It had struck me that it was possible that some love intrigue was on foot. That would have accounted for his stealthy movements and also for the uneasiness of his wife. The man is a striking-looking fellow, very well equipped to steal the heart of a country girl, so that this theory seemed to have something to support it. That opening of the door which I had heard after I had returned to my room might mean that he had gone out to keep some clandestine appointment. So I reasoned with myself in the morning, and I tell you the direction of my suspicions, however much the result may have shown that they were unfounded.
  But whatever the true explanation of Barrymore's movements might be, I felt that the responsibility of keeping them to myself until I could explain them was more than I could bear. I had an interview with the baronet in his study after breakfast, and I told him all that I had seen. He was less surprised than I had expected.
  The baronet has been in communication with the architect who prepared the plans for Sir Charles, and with a contractor from London, so that we may expect great changes to begin here soon. There have been decorators and furnishers up from Plymouth, and it is evident that our friend has large ideas and means to spare no pains or expense to restore the grandeur of his family. When the house is renovated and refurnished, all that he will need will be a wife to make it complete. Between ourselves there are pretty clear signs that this will not be wanting if the lady is willing, for I have seldom seen a man more infatuated with a woman than he is with our beautiful neighbour, Miss Stapleton. And yet the course of true love does not run quite as smoothly as one would under the circumstances expect. To-day, for example, its surface was broken by a very unexpected ripple, which has caused our friend considerable perplexity and annoyance.
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conversations.value: It was several miles off, but I could distinctly see a small dark dot against the dull green and gray.
  The telescope, a formidable instrument mounted upon a tripod, stood upon the flat leads of the house. Frankland clapped his eye to it and gave a cry of satisfaction.
  There he was, sure enough, a small urchin with a little bundle upon his shoulder, toiling slowly up the hill. When he reached the crest I saw the ragged uncouth figure outlined for an instant against the cold blue sky. He looked round him with a furtive and stealthy air, as one who dreads pursuit. Then he vanished over the hill. "Well! Am I right?"
  But I resisted all his solicitations and succeeded in dissuading him from his announced intention of walking home with me. I kept the road as long as his eye was on me, and then I struck off across the moor and made for the stony hill over which the boy had disappeared. Everything was working in my favour, and I swore that it should not be through lack of energy or perseverance that I should miss the chance which fortune had thrown in my way.
  The sun was already sinking when I reached the summit of the hill, and the long slopes beneath me were all golden-green on one side and gray shadow on the other. A haze lay low upon the farthest sky-line, out of which jutted the fantastic shapes of Belliver and Vixen Tor. Over the wide expanse there was no sound and no movement. One great gray bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in the blue heaven. He and I seemed to be the only living things between the huge arch of the sky and the desert beneath it. The barren scene, the sense of loneliness, and the mystery and urgency of my task all struck a chill into my heart. The boy was nowhere to be seen. But down beneath me in a cleft of the hills there was a circle of the old stone huts, and in the middle of them there was one which retained sufficient roof to act as a screen against the weather. My heart leaped within me as I saw it. This must be the burrow where the stranger lurked. At last my foot was on the threshold of his hiding place—his secret was within my grasp.
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conversations.value: It was evident to us that all pursuit was in vain until the fog had lifted. Meanwhile we left Lestrade in possession of the house while Holmes and I went back with the baronet to Baskerville Hall. The story of the Stapletons could no longer be withheld from him, but he took the blow bravely when he learned the truth about the woman whom he had loved. But the shock of the night's adventures had shattered his nerves, and before morning he lay delirious in a high fever under the care of Dr. Mortimer. The two of them were destined to travel together round the world before Sir Henry had become once more the hale, hearty man that he had been before he became master of that ill-omened estate.
  And now I come rapidly to the conclusion of this singular narrative, in which I have tried to make the reader share those dark fears and vague surmises which clouded our lives so long and ended in so tragic a manner. On the morning after the death of the hound the fog had lifted and we were guided by Mrs. Stapleton to the point where they had found a pathway through the bog. It helped us to realize the horror of this woman's life when we saw the eagerness and joy with which she laid us on her husband's track. We left her standing upon the thin peninsula of firm, peaty soil which tapered out into the widespread bog. From the end of it a small wand planted here and there showed where the path zigzagged from tuft to tuft of rushes among those green-scummed pits and foul quagmires which barred the way to the stranger. Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay and a heavy miasmatic vapour onto our faces, while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet. Its tenacious grip plucked at our heels as we walked, and when we sank into it it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths, so grim and purposeful was the clutch in which it held us. Once only we saw a trace that someone had passed that perilous way before us. From amid a tuft of cotton grass which bore it up out of the slime some dark thing was projecting. Holmes sank to his waist as he stepped from the path to seize it, and had we not been there to drag him out he could never have set his foot upon firm land again. He held an old black boot in the air. "Meyers, Toronto," was printed on the leather inside.
  But more than that we were never destined to know, though there was much which we might surmise. There was no chance of finding footsteps in the mire, for the rising mud oozed swiftly in upon them, but as we at last reached firmer ground beyond the morass we all looked eagerly for them. But no slightest sign of them ever met our eyes. If the earth told a true story, then Stapleton never reached that island of refuge towards which he struggled through the fog upon that last night. Somewhere in the heart of the great Grimpen Mire, down in the foul slime of the huge morass which had sucked him in, this cold and cruel-hearted man is forever buried.
  Many traces we found of him in the bog-girt island where he had hid his savage ally. A huge driving-wheel and a shaft half-filled with rubbish showed the position of an abandoned mine. Beside it were the crumbling remains of the cottages of the miners, driven away no doubt by the foul reek of the surrounding swamp. In one of these a staple and chain with a quantity of gnawed bones showed where the animal had been confined. A skeleton with a tangle of brown hair adhering to it lay among the debris.
  It was the end of November, and Holmes and I sat, upon a raw and foggy night, on either side of a blazing fire in our sitting-room in Baker Street. Since the tragic upshot of our visit to Devonshire he had been engaged in two affairs of the utmost importance, in the first of which he had exposed the atrocious conduct of Colonel Upwood in connection with the famous card scandal of the Nonpareil Club, while in the second he had defended the unfortunate Mme. Montpensier from the charge of murder which hung over her in connection with the death of her step-daughter, Mlle. Carere, the young lady who, as it will be remembered, was found six months later alive and married in New York. My friend was in excellent spirits over the success which had attended a succession of difficult and important cases, so that I was able to induce him to discuss the details of the Baskerville mystery. I had waited patiently for the opportunity for I was aware that he would never permit cases to overlap, and that his clear and logical mind would not be drawn from its present work to dwell upon memories of the past. Sir Henry and Dr. Mortimer were, however, in London, on their way to that long voyage which had been recommended for the restoration of his shattered nerves. They had called upon us that very afternoon, so that it was natural that the subject should come up for discussion.