The Hound of the Baskervilles (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- First Published: 1901
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Detective and mystery
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: Dogs, Murder or homicide, Supernatural, Superstition, Nineteenth century, England or English people, Detectives, Rulers, Private investigators, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: London, England, Devon, England
Places Discussed
*Baker Street. London street at whose imaginary 221B address Holmes and Watson share lodgings. There, visitors are admitted by Mrs. Hudson, the landlady who lives on the ground floor and takes them upstairs to Holmes and Watson’s sitting room. The novel opens with the house being watched during the visit of Dr. Mortimer, a concerned neighbor of Sir Henry Baskerville.
Baskerville Hall. Ancestral Devonshire home of the Baskerville family, located on the edge of Dartmoor, a wild, rugged area in the south of England. Baskerville Hall is fourteen miles from...
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