The Hound of the Baskervilles-Arthur Conan Doyle

When the elderly Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the fog-drenched moors of Devonshire, the cause appears to be his failing heart — but enormous footprints in the mud tell a different story. His heir, Sir Henry, is warned away from the ancestral estate by an anonymous note and rumours of a spectral hound that has haunted the Baskerville family for generations. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are called in, and while Holmes remains in London — or so it seems — Watson is dispatched to Baskerville Hall to keep watch. Conan Doyle’s finest novel blends gothic horror with razor-sharp detective logic, building dread across the windswept moors before Holmes delivers one of fiction’s most satisfying unmasking scenes. It remains the definitive Sherlock Holmes adventure and one of the most read detective novels in the English language.