Publisher's Synopsis
Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of The Baskervilles on Steam: Annotated
In 1901 Sherlock Holmes returned from the dead after seven years in purgatory and found himself restored to an earthly hellscape on the heels of a devil dog. Before his full restoration in "The Adventure of the Empty House," Holmes would face his greatest and most famous mystery on the rocky hills and foggy dells of Dartmoor, surrounded by Bronze Age ruins, Dantean wilds, and a landscape of sublime desolation which serves as the natural foil to his urbane intellect.
As he, himself remarked, "the setting [was] a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men..." Doyle was inspired to resurrect Holmes from the Reichenbach Falls after spending a holiday in bleak Devonshire, listening to folktales of black devil dogs like the spectral Black Shuck, and pondering the uncanny juxtaposition of the neolithic landscape around him -- unchanged by the Industrial Age. After Sir Charles Baskerville dies of fright on the outskirts of his moorland manor, massive nearby pawprints suggest the influence of the family ghost: a hellhound who has been haunting the Baskerville males since the 17th century. With the Canadian heir en route to England, Holmes must determine "whether it's a case for a policeman or a clergyman" has the Hound of the Baskervilles returned to claim another victim or is it a brilliant, sinister plot to claim the family fortune?
Annotated and illustrated, this collector's edition of the classic, Gothic mystery gives historical, literary, and scientific contexts to Sherlock Holmes's most famous case. From the hansom cabs and bustling streets of Victorian Westminster to the sparse, alien landscape of gloomy Dartmoor, follow in the steps of the Great Detective and encounter the Hound of the Baskervilles for yourself...
