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I saved The Hound Of the Baskervilles for Halloween this year. As always, the Sherlock Holmes are great. The hound is truly terrifying.
I'm not sure what took me so long to read this book. I've always loved Sherlock Holmes since I first saw Basil Rathbone's version on t.v. as a child. This was a lovely mystery. Although, I knew the basis of the story (from what I could remember seeing as a child and also from the Moffit/Gatiss modern version of the tale), I still found myself surprised in a few areas. I even found myself jumping at one point when my telephone rang while I was reading a particularly dark description of the moors
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Hound of the Baskervilles is one of the world's first Scooby Doo Mysteries! And Stapleton would have gotten away with it if it weren't for that pesky detective Holmes and his sidekick Watson. This is a quick and entertaining classic everyone should read at least once.
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I enjoyed this, especially the description of the moors. I don't know if it because Sherlock is so famous or this is such a standard classic detective novel, but it was pretty easy for me to predict.
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