title: The Hound of the Baskervilles (SHERLOCK HOLMES)
author: SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
description: BEAUTIFUL BRAND NEW. NO REMINDER MARKS. VERY NICE END PAGES. VERY NICE JACKET NICE ILLUSTRATIONS. FIRST ISSUED 1902. THIS COPYRIGHT 1994. ISSUED ABOUT 1995.
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  The Hound of the Baskervilles
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  By Arthur Conan Doyle
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 1  
    
  Mr. Sherlock Holmes
  
  
  Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon
  those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the
  breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our
  visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of
  wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a ‘Penang lawyer.’ Just
  under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. ‘To James
  Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,’ was engraved upon it,
  with the date ‘1884.’ It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family
  practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring.
  
  
  ‘Well, Watson, what do you make of it?’
  
  
  Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my
  occupation.
  
  
  ‘How 