![]() I would like to discuss some of those adaptations today. Its renown has been magnified by countless adaptations. Whether because readers had waited so long for new material or just because it is far and away the best of the four Holmes novels, The Hound of the Baskervilles remains among Sherlock Holmes’s best-known adventures. Doyle held off on actually resurrecting Holmes for another year-our deerstalker-clad hero wouldn’t return until 1903’s The Empty House-so Hound is set before Holmes’s supposed death. But public affection for Holmes was as great as ever, so Arthur Conan Doyle finally caved and gave us The Hound of the Baskervilles, a sordid tale of murder on a moody English moor. ![]() The great detective was still presumed dead following his cliffside encounter with Professor Moriarty in 1893’s The Final Problem. Originally published in serial form from 1901 to 1902, The Hound of the Baskervilles came at an odd period in the history of Sherlock Holmes. ![]()
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