2024-06-28
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Hello, I'm Mariam.
I'm sure you've heard of Sherlock Holmes, Britain's most famous sleuth.
Well, I'm going to tell you about the Hound of the Baskervilles, perhaps one.
Of his strangest cases.
One day Holmes and doctor Watson are.
Visited in London by doctor Mortimer whose friend Sir Charles Baskerville has been found.
Dead in mysterious circumstances.
Close to his body was a gigantic paw print.
Mortimer is dead certain that a huge dog is responsible for the death.
According to legend, an enormous black hound has haunted the Baskerville family for centuries.
Intrigued, Holmes agrees to help protect the.
New heir to the estate, Sir Henry Baskerville, who Mortimer believes is in deadly danger.
Sir Henry has been warned in a.
Note to stay away from Baskerville hall and bizarrely, two of his shoes have gone missing.
Watson is sent on ahead to Baskerville hall.
On arriving in deepest Dartmoor Watson's suspicions.
Are raised by the strange behavior of.
The butler and his wife.
He also learns that a convict, Selden.
Has escaped from a nearby prison.