Name: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Cast

Sherlock Holmes

Main · Baker Street investigators

A detective who can read a life from a walking stick walks into a case staged to look beyond reason.

Locations

221B Baker Street

rooms

A visitor's forgotten walking stick turns a quiet breakfast room into the first puzzle to solve.

Passage

Watson risks embarrassment as Holmes tests whether his logic can match genius.

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The Author’s Pen

Watson Reads the Walking Stick

“I think,” said I, following as far as I could the methods of my companion, “that Dr. Mortimer is a successful, elderly medical man, well-esteemed since those who know him give him this mark of their appreciation.”

“Good!” said Holmes. “Excellent!”

“I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot.”

“Why so?”

“Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it. The thick-iron ferrule is worn down, so it is evident that he has done a great amount of walking with it.”

“Perfectly sound!” said Holmes.

Reading

Watson is doing Holmes's job for once, and doing it out loud. Holmes has handed him a stranger's walking stick and asked what he can read from it, and Watson, pleased with himself, builds a whole man from a worn tip and an engraved gift: a respected old country doctor who tramps between patients on foot. Holmes's short praise ("Good!", "Excellent!", "Perfectly sound!") sounds like a teacher rewarding a pupil, which should make us suspicious of how easily it comes.

World Index

The Plot

The Curse Reaches Baker StreetWatson Alone on the MoorSecrets of the HouseholdThe Watcher in the HutThe Mask Comes OffThe Supreme AdventureA Retrospection

The Cast

Sherlock HolmesDr. John WatsonSir Henry BaskervilleSir Charles BaskervilleStapletonBeryl StapletonDr. James MortimerMr. BarrymoreMrs. BarrymoreLaura LyonsSeldenInspector LestradeFrankland of Lafter HallSir Hugo BaskervilleThe Unnamed Baskerville MaidenCartwrightAnthonyJames DesmondRodger Baskerville

Locations

221B Baker StreetBaskerville HallCoombe TraceyDartmoorGrimpenGrimpen MireLafter HallMerripit HouseNorthumberland HotelThe Tor and Stone HutsThe Yew Alley

Objects of Note

Dr. Mortimer’s Walking StickHolmes’s Hidden Hut SuppliesSir Henry’s Missing BootsSir Henry’s Old ClothesStapleton’s Butterfly NetThe Anonymous Warning NoteThe Barrymore Candle SignalThe Baskerville ManuscriptThe Burned Letter FragmentThe Devon County Chronicle AccountThe Family PortraitThe HoundThe Hound FootprintsThe Luminous Hound StagingWatson’s Reports and Diary

Core Concepts

A landscape can enable evil without possessing an evil willFear becomes most dangerous when someone can stage and aim itInheritance passes vulnerability and motive alongside propertyKnowledge offers limited freedom when dependence controls speechObservation creates knowledge while also becoming a means of controlPrivate certainty is not the same as demonstrable truthReason must investigate fear rather than merely dismiss itSecrecy can resemble guilt even when it grows from loyaltyThe impossible story repeatedly leaves ordinary physical traces

The Author's Pen

The Coming of the HoundThe Footprints of a HoundSir Henry's Final AnswerHolmes Exceeds ImaginationFollowing the WatcherHolmes Uneasy for WatsonHolmes's Parting InstructionsFirst Sight of the MoorBaskerville Hall at DuskThe Woman's SobKnowing the MoorThe Great Grimpen MireThe Hound's CallA Warning to Go BackA Warning WithheldWatson’s Letters to HolmesThe Pursuit in DarknessThe Escaped ConvictThe Unseen WatcherThe Burned Letter FragmentLaura Lyons RememberedThe Stranger on the HillsideThe Stranger's Hiding PlaceA Well Known VoiceHolmes on the MoorMurder Before We Are ReadyToo Late on the MoorNo Case At PresentSir Henry Must Go AloneStapleton's Wife RevealedStapleton in the PortraitHolmes Keeps His CounselThe Fog Closes InThe Hound From the FogThe Giant Hound FallsThe Phosphorus HoundThe Hound's Hidden LairDiscussing the Baskerville MysteryA Sketch of Events

Plot point 01

The Curse Reaches Baker Street

A country doctor leaves behind a walking stick and a manuscript about a demon hound — and within days a baronet is dead in a yew alley, the tracks of a gigantic hound beside his body.

Objects of Note

Dr. Mortimer’s Walking Stick

A visitor forgets his cane at Baker Street, and Holmes reads his whole life off it.

The Cast

Dr. John Watson

Main · Baker Street investigators

A brave observer writes from the moor with courage enough to report what he cannot yet explain.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

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The plot of The Hound of the Baskervilles

The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.

The Curse Reaches Baker Street
Watson Alone on the Moor
Secrets of the Household
The Watcher in the Hut
The Mask Comes Off
The Supreme Adventure
A Retrospection

The author's pen in The Hound of the Baskervilles

The passages themselves, Arthur Conan Doyle's own words, as Literah maps it.

Watson Reads the Walking Stickch. 1
The Coming of the Houndch. 2
The Footprints of a Houndch. 2
Sir Henry's Final Answerch. 4
Holmes Exceeds Imaginationch. 4
Following the Watcherch. 4
Holmes Uneasy for Watsonch. 5
Holmes's Parting Instructionsch. 6
First Sight of the Moorch. 6
Baskerville Hall at Duskch. 6
The Woman's Sobch. 7
Knowing the Moorch. 7
The Great Grimpen Mirech. 7
The Hound's Callch. 7
A Warning to Go Backch. 7
A Warning Withheldch. 7
Watson’s Letters to Holmesch. 8
The Pursuit in Darknessch. 9
The Escaped Convictch. 9
The Unseen Watcherch. 10

The characters of The Hound of the Baskervilles

Who is who, as Literah maps it.

Sherlock Holmesmajor
Dr. John Watsonmajor
Sir Henry Baskervillemajor
Sir Charles Baskervillemajor
Stapletonmajor
Beryl Stapletonmajor
Dr. James Mortimersupporting
Mr. Barrymoresupporting
Mrs. Barrymoresupporting
Laura Lyonssupporting
Seldensupporting
Inspector Lestradesupporting
Frankland of Lafter Hallsupporting
Sir Hugo Baskervillesupporting
The Unnamed Baskerville Maidenminor
Cartwrightminor

The locations in The Hound of the Baskervilles

Where it happens, as Literah maps it.

221B Baker Streetrooms
Northumberland Hotelhotel
Baskerville Hallestate
The Yew Alleygarden walk
Dartmoormoor
Grimpen Miremire
Merripit Househouse
The Tor and Stone Hutsmoor landmark
Coombe Traceytown
Lafter Hallhouse
Grimpenvillage district

The core concepts in The Hound of the Baskervilles

What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.

Reason must investigate fear rather than merely dismiss it
Fear becomes most dangerous when someone can stage and aim it
The impossible story repeatedly leaves ordinary physical traces
Inheritance passes vulnerability and motive alongside property
A landscape can enable evil without possessing an evil will
Observation creates knowledge while also becoming a means of control
Knowledge offers limited freedom when dependence controls speech
Secrecy can resemble guilt even when it grows from loyalty
Private certainty is not the same as demonstrable truth

The objects of note in The Hound of the Baskervilles

The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.

Dr. Mortimer’s Walking Stick
The Baskerville Manuscript
The Devon County Chronicle Account
The Hound Footprints
The Anonymous Warning Note
Sir Henry’s Missing Boots
The Barrymore Candle Signal
The Burned Letter Fragment
Watson’s Reports and Diary
The Family Portrait
The Luminous Hound Staging
Stapleton’s Butterfly Net
Sir Henry’s Old Clothes
Holmes’s Hidden Hut Supplies

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