Summary of The Hound of the Baskervilles This is a summary of a book written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He writes about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. This time Holmes solved a mystery concerning an old legend about the Hound of the Baskervilles. Everything begins with the arrival of Dr. Mortimer. He reads aloud from an old manuscript, where the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles is printed. The legend tells that Hugo …showed first 75 words of 1886 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1886 total…heirs on his way. Consequently, he resorted to some paint to make the dog look scary and he also starved it until it became restless and aggressiveThe hound was hidden on an island in the morass, in Grimpen Mire, which explains the anguished screams heard by the inhabitants and which contributed to keeping the legend alive ! In the end, Holmes and Watson shot the dog dead as it was threatening Sir Henry Baskerville’s life.