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The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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1. Compare The Hound of the Baskervilles with several of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short stories. Discuss the common elements.

2. Did the identity of the criminal and the nature of the crime become evident to you before the novel concluded? If so, at what point did you begin to have suspicions?

3. Read one of Edgar Allan Poe's Inspector Dupin mysteries and compare Dupin's character to Sherlock Holmes.

4. Numerous film adaptations of The Hound of the Baskervilles and other Sherlock Holmes stories exist. Watch one or two of these films and compare the two formats.

5. Research Dartmoor, the English moor that is central to this novel. What legends are associated with the moor and its surrounding areas?

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