The Dog of Baskerville
See also: Baskerville
the Dog of Baskerville ( The Hound off the Baskervilles ) is an English detective novel of Arthur Conan Doyle, published for the first time in the Strand Magazine in 1901 and 1902.
The summary of the history
The action proceeds in Devonshire in 1885. The legend runs in the area that an enormous dog at the origin of would have died of Sir Charles Baskerville. Two centuries earlier, one of its ancestors, Sir Hugo Baskerville, would mysteriously die after having made immondes atrocities. The legend says that a dog would have come from the hells to punish it, and that since it would haunt the moor, until the line of Baskerville is extinct… Sherlock Holmes and the Doctor Watson inquires. They must protect the last one going down from Baskerville: Sir Henry Baskerville.
Videoludic adaptation
- The Hound off the Baskervilles , a Video game of adventure published by On-line Entertainment in 1991 on Amiga CDTV.
Anecdote
The name of Baskerville was given to the main character of the novel the Name of the pink by Umberto Eco, in reference to Sherlock Holmes, via the character of the Chien of Baskerville .
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