The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sir Charles dies of a heart attack, but he is really murdered by his neighbor Mr. Stapleton. Charles Baskerville died in a “sudden and tragic death,” and it was his death that led to Sherlock...

Baskerville Hall is the classic gothic spooky old house. It is mysterious, desolate, isolated, very old, and lonely. Baskerville Hall is located on the Moorland in Southern England. It was built...

In The Hound of the Baskervilles, as in most detective mystery genre works, the brilliant detective must sift through many clues, some of which are red herrings, to solve the mystery. The Hound of...

Stapleton required a belonging of Henry's in order to train the hound to attack and kill him. Stapleton was a distant relative, a Baskerville with his eye on Henry's property. He had similarly...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle offers a few red herrings to obscure the identity of the murderer of Charles Baskerville and build the novel's suspense. A man named Selden, a murderer who has escaped from...

The curse of the Baskervilles is that the hound of the moor hunts down the members of the Baskerville family one by one. When the current resident of the Baskerville home is found dead, a young...

Selden is the “Notting Hill Murderer,” an escaped convict and Mrs. Barrymore’s brother. Watson learns that there is a killer on the loose on the Moor. Mortimer and Henry Baskerville discuss the...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is set in the late nineteenth century. The story takes place partly in London but, for the most part, in and around Baskerville Hall, an ancient house on Dartmoor. The...

The moor surrounding Baskerville Hall is an appropriate setting for the strange goings-on in The Hound of the Baskervilles. The dark, vast expanses of moorland lend themselves easily to murder,...

Holmes vs. Stapleton: The main conflict is that Mr. Stapleton is killing heirs to the Baskerville fortune. The main conflict in the story is Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack Stapleton. We do not know that...

Among the most important literary techniques used in the novel are Watson's first-person narration, which highlights Holmes's genius and allows Doyle to mislead the leader as Watson himself is...

A great many of the Sherlock Holmes stories turn out to be about money, even though the mercenary motif is not visible at the beginning. Some examples are "The Speckled Band," "The Solitary...

Holmes uses his usual analytical and empirical methods to solve the crime. He dismisses from the start any superstitious notion of a legend of a mysterious demonic hound and applies logic to his...

A character sketch is a complete description of a person. It usually does include both physical and personality traits. James Watson is a doctor, and he is highly observant and curious....

Watson sees Barrymore at a window with a candle in the middle of the night. Henry Baskerville comes to Sherlock Holmes when Charles Baskerville is murdered. Henry might be next. Holmes pursues...

Chapter 5 of this novel is titled "Three Broken Threads". The threads in this case refer to to threads of the case - three different possible leads that could further the investigation....

This section of The Hound of the Baskervilles contains several metaphors—some mundane and conversational, as when Watson accuses Holmes of having "eyes in the back of your head," meaning that he is...

Like any good Sherlock Holmes story, The Hound of the Baskervilles is riddled with clues. Being one of Doyle's longer novels, he was able to incorporate a wealth of clues both directly tied to the...

In any mystery, it is important to get to know the suspects. In this case, the neighbors! The moor is very sparsely inhabited, and those who live near each other are thrown very much together....

Deductions are more Holmes's thing really, so when Watson tries his hand at the art of deduction, it's not surprising that he often gets the wrong end of the stick. (No pun intended.) However, one...

The main use of description in the novel is to enhance the mood in the part of the novel set in Devonshire. London merely serves as a backdrop to the initial contact between Holmes and the...

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson work to solve the mystery surrounding the death of a man called Sir Charles Baskerville, and save his...

The novel includes all three types of conflict— human versus nature, human versus human, and human versus themself. At first it seems that human versus nature is more important, as the Baskervilles...

One of the novel's themes is the vast difference in mindset and sensibility between town and country dwellers. In his natural urban environment, Sherlock Holmes is able to draw upon his remarkable...

Sir Henry refuses to be scared away from his new home. Sir Henry is the last descendant of Baskerville Hall (supposedly). He inherits the estate when his uncle Sir Charles dies of very mysterious...

One of the worst things about the moors of the West Country in England is the absolute absence of light - they are terrifying places at night even without the threat of a hound - I know because I...

At the beginning of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes receives a visit from Dr. Mortimer, a friend of the late Sir Charles Baskerville. He introduces Holmes to the strange...

In chapter 1, Sherlock Holmes meets Dr. Mortimer, who has come to get his assistance with a problem. Holmes shows off his skills in deduction to Watson. In chapter 2, Dr. Mortimer shares the...

Holmes uses many kinds of evidence to solve the crime in The Hound of the Baskervilles. 1. Dr. Mortimer's testimony: Dr. Mortimer tells Holmes about the tale of the hound and that Sir Charles’s...

The manuscript Dr Mortimer has with him was given him by the recently-deceased Sir Charles Baskerville. It is a manuscript dating from the eighteenth century and relates the legend of the...

If we are referring to the suspects in Sir Charles Baskerville's murder, there is also another suspect: Laura Lyons. In the story, Laura is estranged from her husband. For his part, Jack Stapleton...

Holmes deduces that the person who wrote the note did not want his or her handwriting to be recognized, and was in a hurry. In The Hound of the Baskervilles, a mysterious spectral dog has been...

If you need a refresher on the ending, my best advice is to study Chapter 15: A Retrospection. In this chapter, Sherlock Holmes gives us a great summary of pertinent events in the Hound Of The...

Barrymore says his wife did not cry, but Watson can see her eyes. In his first case without Sherlock Holmes, Watson is in over his head a bit. His task is to look for clues and report back. He...

In the novel 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' by English author Arthur Conan Doyle, the walking stick is an important prop. It is able to 'tell' the detective quite a lot about its owner. It first...

This is one of those questions that requires you to read beyond the immediate material. The short answer is that Holmes becomes interested because Dr. Mortimer reads about details of the case that...

"Chapter 15: A Retrospection" is the final chapter of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this chapter, Holmes and Watson are back in London, approximately a month after the...

Laura Lyons is the daughter of the Baskervilles' neighbour, the crochety Frankland, and is also the woman who unwittingly lured Sir Charles Baskerville out to his death. When Watson goes to visit...

Sir Charles Baskerville was murdered by Stapleton, because Stapleton set the dog on him and purposefully made it as frightening as possible. In order to murder someone you don’t have to shoot them...

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story, The Hound of the Baskervilles, the boy Cartwright is a handy assistant for Wilson, a hotel manager. Holmes had worked with Cartwright on a case to...

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tale The Hound of the Baskervilles, Mr. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. John Watson have been enlisted to help one Sir Henry Baskervilles. Sir Henry's family seems...

The stratagems that Stapleton devises to murder Sir Charles and Sir Henry by means of the hound have two purposes. First, by reinforcing the legend of the hound, Stapleton hopes to divert attention...

There are actually two criminals in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of Baskervilles. The first one to be captured is Seldon, or Notting Hill Murderer. He turns out to be the brother of Mrs....

In "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Henry Baskervilles who was the heir to the property of the Baskervilles family after the death of Sir Charles Baskerville received a...

Arthur Conan Doyle provides the reader with many rich descriptions of Baskerville Hall. In Chapter Six, readers get their first look at the exterior of the residence, and it's a bleak one. After...

The old legend of Sir Hugo Baskerville is narrated to Holmes and Watson by Dr Mortimer. Apparently Sir Hugo was a wild and fearsome man who took a fancy to a young woman living near his estate and...

Sherlock Holmes initially began to suspect that Stapleton was behind the criminal dealings concerning the Baskerville estate when he closely examined the cryptic warning note received by Sir Henry....

The Hound of Baskervilles is an adventure featuring Sherlock Holmes who is an independent detective and excels in solving the most esoteric of mysteries. The story is narrated by Dr. Watson. The...

The book starts with Holmes and Watson examining the walking stick that Mortimer has left. Watson, as so often is the case, reads the clues in the stick all wrong and Holmes has to correct him....

Without Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes would be without friend and historian. More importantly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective would be much less of a human in his many adventures, were it...