Read an electronic version of this classic while flying to and fro Phoenix -> Bangalore. Perfect airplane reading material.
Much of my memory of the book is intertwined with memories of the 1939 movie starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce - a favorite as we were growing up; the younger siblings made a tape recording and then a typed transcript. The movie also delights, if varying in some respects from the book.
Anyway - the detective is hired to get to the bottom of a mystery on the moors - a legendary, huge hound-like fiend that haunts the Baskervilles over the generations. Dr. Mortimer brings in Holmes. Watson stays on the moor. Stapleton and his "wife" live nearby; he is a naturalist. Barrymore - butler - and his wife and brother.
Laura Frankland wrote to Sir Hugo - I don't really recall that part in the movie.
I would avoid the Grimpen Mire.
Great read.
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