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Read The Hound of the Baskervilles in English, with German beside it
by Arthur Conan Doyle · 1859–1930
"The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a crime novel serialized from 1901 to 1902. Sherlock Holmes and Watson investigate a centuries-old legend of a demonic hound haunting the Baskerville family on the desolate moors of Dartmoor. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies under mysterious circumstances, his heir Sir Henry arrives from Canada to claim his inheritance—only to face strange threats and supernatural dangers. Holmes must determine whether the curse is real or if a cunning murderer lurks behind the legend.
Summary generated automatically by Project Gutenberg.
- Read time
- 269 min
- Words
- 59,258
- Chapters
- 19
- Paragraphs
- 1,496
- Price
- Free
- Blessing and cursing -- Fiction
- Dartmoor (England) -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Dogs -- Fiction
- Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- England -- Fiction
“Hum!
„Hum!
Someone seems to be very deeply interested in your movements.”
Jemand scheint sich sehr tief für Ihre Bewegungen zu interessieren.“
Out of the envelope he took a half-sheet of foolscap paper folded into four.
Aus dem Umschlag nahm er ein halbes Bogen Schreibpapier, in vier gefaltet.
This he opened and spread flat upon the table.
Dieses öffnete er und breitete es flach auf dem Tisch aus.
Across the middle of it a single sentence had been formed by the expedient of pasting printed words upon it.
Über die Mitte war ein einziger Satz durch das Mittel des Aufklebens gedruckter Wörter gebildet.
It ran:
Er lautete:
About the author
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in Crowborough in 1930.
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Book details
- Original language
- English
- Translation
- German, machine translation
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #2852
- Licence
- Public domain worldwide
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