Review/ Summery for Hound of Baskervilles

Lucas Golm

Summer of “Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of Baskervilles”
The story of “The Hound of Baskervilles” begins with an introduction of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Henry to his office. Sir Henry is facing a mystery involving a murder and a myth. He asked Detective Holmes to help him. Holmes agreed and began asking questions relating to the problem and the story of a hound killing one of Sir Henry’s great, great grandpas. The mystery was that the man who owned the property it happened at was literally scared to death by some giant evil hound and his heir to his property is in risk of the same fate. Sherlock Holmes being the great detective gets to work on figuring out the mystery knowing that the evil hell hound just doesn’t exactly fit modern explanations of death or reality for that matter.
Later Sir Wilson receives a message telling him to stay away from his own property or he may lose his life. Sherlock Holmes goes to work finding the font and newspaper it came from. The London Times. Further, Sir William is missing one of his new boots. Then one of his old ones. Sherlock Holmes sends Sir William off with his partner Dr. Mortimer while he’s “off on business”. They go and encounter some strange people and try to follow up with leads on a butler but come up empty. Mr. Stapledon was one person they met and he seemed friendly enough. His sister (who really turned out to be his wife) kept trying to warn the two men. Mr. Stapledon turned out to be the killer who wanted Sir Willaim away from there. He tied up his wife so she couldn’t’ warn him but Sherlock who was realy there the whole time spying on all of them figured out and stopped Mr. Stapledon and he died by drowning. Sherlock Holmes saved the day and solved the mystery once again.

Review
The book “Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles” was a great example of outstanding writing ability in the genre of Mystery. It displayed an ability to keep the reader locked in and focused on every detail of every sentence. I myself enjoyed the book thoroughly.
When I first picked it up I was slightly spectacle as I do like mysteries and I decided I would be a critic. I began reading it and it put me right into the scene. I started playing it out, although it was slightly corny with the whole “best detective in the world but it defiantly described vivid settings. It was getting late the first night I started reading it and I found myself not being able to put the book down. Every word Doyle (the author) wrote drew me in further and further. They were all intertwined mixing legends and myths with real circumstances and mysteries. It quickly and clearly described the main characters in the story and a gave you a quick opinion of them being whether they are the ones who are behind the story. I enjoyed reading descriptive part of the story.
My other favorite part would have been the story and plotline it’s self. I don’t know if the game “Clue” is based off of Sherlock Holmes Books, but it wouldn’t surprise me because the story keeps you guessing to the end. It introduced the actual killer as a innocent supersticous bug man who only wanted to warn the victim. It turned out him being the heartless man who thought up a clever plan to trick everyone. His sister/wife was his downfall. He told everyone that it was his sister but in reality it was his wife and she was trying to warn Sir William but her husband was intent on having him killed. Her husband tied her up to keep her from saying anything to his victims.
In the end Sherlock holmes managed to pull through while he was “bussy” he was realy spying on everything that was going on. He found the right person and the man ran away and was presumed drowned in the swamps. It was a good ending to a poor situation and mystery and a well thought out story.