'Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that savage face which broke upon us out of the fog'.

The Hound of Baskervilles holds the reader in suspense as few murder stories do.

Its combination of horror, homicidal villainy, the fogs of remote Dartmoor, the Baskerville Curse 'a great black beast shaped like a hound', are as unforgettable as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.