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crime detective novel by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.

Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August to April , it is set largely in Dartmoor, Devon, in England's West Country and follows Holmes and Watson investigating the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin.

This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.^[3]

One of the most famous stories ever written,^[3] in , the book was listed as number of on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel".^[4] In , a poll of "Sherlockians" ranked it as the best of the four Holmes novels.^[5&#