The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle · 1902A spectral hound on Dartmoor and the Baskerville curse. Read The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle page by page and explore its network of 274…Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.” Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. “To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,” was engraved upon it, with the date “1884.” It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned…All books in the ECCE gallery