title: The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Novel
author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
description: "Simon Prebble gives an expert reading of both of these works.... Listeners will be spellbound by Conan Doyle's masterful plots and Prebble's captivating narration." ---AudioFile
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  SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE NOVELS
  
  
  _A Study in Scarlet_ · _The Sign of Four_ · _The Hound of the Baskervilles_ ·
  _The Valley of Fear_
  
  
  In 1886 a doctor living on the southern coast of England decided to try his
  hand at writing a mystery story. In his notes for _A Study in Scarlet_ , he
  called his chief characters, if only provisionally, J. Sherrinford Holmes and
  Ormond Sacker. Wisely, though, Arthur Conan Doyle eventually settled on much
  better names—indeed just the right names—and so created two of the most
  beloved figures in all of fiction, the world’s first and only consulting
  detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and his friend and chronicler Dr. John H.
  Watson.
  
  
  Collected here are all four Holmes novels— _A Study in Scarlet_ , _The Sign of
  Four_ , _The Hound_ _of the Baskervilles_ , and _The Valley of Fear_ —with an
  introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic and Baker Street
  Irregular Michael Dirda. These often eerie tales of seemingly impossible
  crimes, of