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    The Hound of the Baskervilles: Adapted Edition
    The Hound of the Baskervilles: Adapted Edition
    The Hound of the Baskervilles: Adapted Edition
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    The Hound of the Baskervilles: Adapted Edition

    Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright

    Narrated by Geoffrey Arend, Wilson Bethel, Christopher Neame and

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    Did a supernatural hound cause the death of Sir Charles Baskerville? Or is the famous Baskerville curse simply a cover for more sinister goings on? The redoubtable Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson face danger in an old mansion and on the moors in this rollicking stage adaptation of Doyle’s classic adventure.

    An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Geoffrey Arend, Wilson Bethel, Seamus Dever, Sarah Drew, Henri Lubatti, James Marsters, Christopher Neame, Moira Quirk, and Darren Richardson.

    Includes a converation with actors Seamus Deaver (Holmes), Geoffrey Arend (Watson), and author Leslie S. Klinger, the New York Times best-selling editor of the Edgar®-winning “New Annotated Sherlock Holmes” and the critically-acclaimed “New Annotated Dracula.”

    Directed by Alexis Jacknow. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL.A. Theatre Works
    Release dateSep 15, 2014
    ISBN9781580819640
    The Hound of the Baskervilles: Adapted Edition
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    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most famous for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes and long-suffering sidekick Dr Watson. Conan Doyle was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.

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    • 4/5
      Perhaps the most popular of all Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles combines the traditional detective tale with elements of horror. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse-and it is up to Holmes and Watson to solve the mystery of the legend. Rationalism is pitted against the supernatural and good against evil, as Sherlock Holmes tries to defeat a foe almost his equal.
    • 5/5
      This book is a classic. When you look at all the other reviews of it out there I wonder, what can I add? I think that out of all of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries this would have to be the best one. At least, in my eyes the most popular. I highly recommend this book.
    • 5/5
      "THE HOUND! COME, WATSON, COME!"

      A fun way to introduce kids to the exciting world of Sherlock Holmes. The illustrations are very well done, and make the whole book a lot of fun to read. The characters are portrayed in the classical fashion--Watson in a tweed coat, and Holmes with pipe in hand in almost every scene. The dialogue must necessarily be shortened to fit this smaller volume, but the key conversations are preserved nicely.

      The illustrations are in monochrome for a reason--so that young readers can have fun penciling, or using some markers to add color.

      The Watson resembles David Burke of the PBS "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series" (Burke was the "first" Watson in that series.)

      THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES will be a fun, enjoyable read for young readers (and artists, too).


    • 4/5
      This was the first Sherlock Holmes novel I've ever read, even though I have had The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes sitting on my bookshelf since middle school or earlier (I got it with a 2 for $1 deal at Walmart). I like to read a series in its entirety and in order, and it was frustrating to me to not know which came first and what else there was; but then I realized that I was going to have to let it go and just enjoy what was in front of me (especially if I was going to finish it in time for the book club next week).This, I believe, was a great introduction to the world of Sherlock Holmes. We all know of Holmes, through TV, movies, stories, etc. And really, he lived up to all of my expectations. I can't really say that his character surprised me in any way, because he's been so well-defined in other media. Which, in this case, is a good thing.The Hound of the Baskervilles is the only full-length Holmes novel, and it is definitely an adventure. From London to the moors of Devonshire, the reader is kept interested by Dr. Watson's account and interest in the neighbors of the haunted and cursed Baskervilles.Legend has it that Hugo Baskerville was a villainous man, and his evil deeds led to the creation of a very real demon from Hell, which hunted him down and killed him, with the threat/promise of killing the rest of his family for generations to come to atone for his misdeeds. And it seems that this curse is real, because many years later his descendant, Sir Charles Baskerville, is chased down and killed, the only evidence being a single footprint of a hound near the body. The last living relative, therefore, must come to live at Baskerville Hall, but not before enlisting the services of the one and only Sherlock Holmes.Will Holmes solve the mystery in time, or is there really a supernatural demon loose that cannot be stopped until vengeance is had? I was kept intrigued throughout the creepy and mysterious chapters, but not freaked out enough that I had to sleep with the lights on, which is a good combination for me. So, if you like a good mystery but don't like being scared silly, I highly recommend you read The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 4 out of 5 stars.
    • 4/5
      The story begins at Sherlock Holmes' place, where he's joined by his friend Dr. Watson. The two are naturally in the middle of investigating a stranger's walking stick, accidentally left at Holmes' house. The stick, it turns out, belongs to a Dr. Mortimer, who is asking the two for help with a manuscript documenting the Curse of the Baskervilles. And so it begins, in a 19th-century smoke-filled room, as Sherlock meditates on the strange, morbid occurrences that have plagued the Baskerville family for generations. And you, reader, if I still have your attention, will soon become another detective, unlocking the mysterious past of these sad characters trapped in the gloom of the moor.Needless to say, this story of Mr. Baskerville's eerie family legacy is a classic for a reason. I liked it just as I had expected to like it, knowing I'm not so crazy about detective novels, and yet that I love a good gothic atmosphere and interesting tale of death, evil and melancholy. Definitely worth a read for the beautiful language and atmosphere.
    • 3/5
      An excellant Sherlock Holmes quest.
    • 5/5
      I liked 'A Study in Scarlet', 'The Sign of Four', and the short stories I read from the Sherlock Holmes canon a year and a half ago, but 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' was significantly more enjoyable. I'll have to revisit more Holmes stories soon!
    • 3/5
      I’ve read most of Holmes before, but somehow I hadn’t read this one. Atmospheric, creepy, and marvellous. [June 2010]
    • 4/5
      If you haven't read this, you need to. It's Sherlock Holmes!!!
    • 5/5
      One of Doyle’s better known Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles, is one that begins in benign city drudgery and ends in the sensational, sensual moors of the countryside. A family history, plagued by the evil tale of a spiritual being, imposes itself on the pragmatic and scientific modernity of Holmes and Watson’s practice, throwing them for a ghostly loop.When I was in third grade, I “read” the Hound of the Baskervilles. I had been given a collection of Doyle’s Holmes stories by some well-intentioned relative and being the avid little reader that I was, dug in. I remember very few of the the other stories but because I was, even (or especially) at 9, an avid animal advocate, I remember the The Hound.At least I thought I did. When I am distressed about the things my son (currently 19 months) is reading in seven and a half years, I’ll have to remind myself that The Hound stuck with me in little part regarding the plot. The tawdry implied love affairs and inherent violence had no effect on me at that age. I think I read it simply because of the dog.Of course, as a 26 year old, Watson’s recount of the countryside drama, packed with supernatural intrigue, holds much more weight. There are great writers still working today and they’ll certainly do in a pinch but there is nothing quite like the witty one liners and beautiful mysterious prose of Dolye’s stories. Through and through its tiny entirety, the Hound of the Baskerville is fantastic craftsmanship and an inevitable crowd favorite.
    • 5/5
      Writing Style: 4.5; Doyle was masterful as he kept you waiting for the next sceneTheme: 4.5; Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have to track down the person (or thing) haunting the Baskerville family; it has intriguing turns throughout; it keeps you guessingContent: 5.0; violence, murder, and deception, but in no way condones any of theseLanguage: 5.0; nothing objectionableOverall 4.5; first Sherlock Holmes unabridged story I have ever read; quite impressed- great spell-bounding tale; highly recommend***April 15, 2013***
    • 4/5
      I read this as a youngster, and I'm so glad I read it again! Good thriller, tightly paced, with enough twists and turns to keep my interest! Bravo Holmes!
    • 5/5
      I read this before when I was younger, so none of it was exactly surprising to me. It's better than the other two Holmes novels I've read: the structure is better, that is to say, although I also enjoyed the story a little more, probably because it's so iconic and because I remembered somewhat of what's supposed to be going on. Sherlock has less of a spotlight in this, I suppose, since Watson goes about on his own and investigates, but of course, it's Holmes that figures out everything at the end. I actually found the last chapter or so, the explanation, unnecessarily -- although that's probably because I've read it before, so I knew the significance of details like the boots.

      Like the other Holmes stories and novels, though, this is easy to read and fun and kinda hard to put down.
    • 3/5
      This is a traditional black and white graphic novel. The story is well known and as a graphic novel it sticks to the plot of the original novel well. The drawings are basic and I have to admit to wanting a little colour. Having said that the drawings are clear and concise with good consistency with the characters faces.This is a short graphic novel which was a quick fun read.
    • 4/5
      This was a super fun read. I was looking for something a little lighter to read and this definitely fit the bill!
    • 5/5
      This was the first "Sherlock Holmes" book that I had ever read. It was very good and interesting; quick and witty dialogue fast-paced, etc. My only complaint was that it did begin to drag near the end. I will definitely read another of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories!
    • 5/5
      My favorite Sherlock Holmes story. I love the longer format and the spooky location.
    • 5/5
      This was the first "Sherlock Holmes" book that I had ever read. It was very good and interesting; quick and witty dialogue fast-paced, etc. My only complaint was that it did begin to drag near the end. I will definitely read another of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories!
    • 4/5
      I think that I would have enjoyed this even more if I hadn't already known the solution from movies and dramatizations. Even so, this is one of Holmes' more suspenseful stories and the descriptions of the moors and the hound are amazing.
    • 3/5
      Dr. Watson moves in with a man in danger of being murdered, possibly by a demon.C (Indifferent).I suspect this story was initially planned without Sherlock Holmes, and he was added to sell it. It really doesn't work as a Holmes story, and it doesn't have a chance to work as anything else since it IS a Holmes story.(Oct. 2022)
    • 3/5
       I realized late in the book that Holmes is absent from the story for long stretches, where Watson contributes a lot of the detective work for the reader. An unusual and yet unsurprising twist on the structure, since Watson is the main POV of these stories. As far as the Holmes novels go, so far this one is the most advanced mystery-wise. We get a red herring or two and Watson has to figure out what’s going on for himself. It utilizes a creepy, gloomy atmosphere fit for the genre that’s more heightened than the previous two. It has the titular monster as its central symbol, a potentially supernatural/demonic beast that haunts a countryside mire. It’s more visually thrilling—a greater feeling of danger. And the mystery is just preposterous enough to intrigue.
    • 4/5
      After reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, I expected this to be much like those stories which, while entertaining, started to get more tedious as I read on. However, Doyle is renewed in his sense of Holmes' and Watson's characters and produced a wildly entertaining mystery full of deceit, scandal, and murder. Holmes' genius and dry, sarcastic wit plus Watson's admiration for his companion and own brand of intelligence make this a great study in character. The story itself is full of adventure and has many characters and plots that keep the reader guessing until finally the mystery is solved by the dynamic duo and friends.
    • 5/5
      Some books have such a grip on the popular imagination that it is easy to fall under the mistaken impression that you know them very well. One such novel is certainly Conan Doyle's “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, in which the great “consulting detective” Sherlock Holmes solves the mystery of a spectral hound haunting the scions of a wealthy family on the bleak Devon moors.

      I vaguely recall reading “The Hound of the Baskervilles” in my early teens. Fresh from a week’s stay in Dartmoor, I returned to it, and was surprised to discover that my impressions of the novel were based less on my recollections than on misconceptions and second-hand retellings.

      For one thing, at the very beginning of the book I noticed an element of what could only be “self-parody”. Consider the following extract from the opening chapter, which led me to double-check whether I was reading the original text or a spoof:

      I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before...
      "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 did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head."
      "I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me," said he.

      Although the setting of the story is before Holmes’s presumed death at the Reichenbach Falls in (what should have been) his “Final Problem”, the Hound of the Baskervilles was the work in which Holmes returned to print after an absence of eight years to appease the public clamour for a new adventure featuring the seemingly omniscient detective. Conan Doyle’s playful opening scene might be poking fun not only at his own characters but also at the public’s obsession with his creation.

      I was also surprised at the fact that, for the greater part of the novel, Watson is the protagonist. Certainly, the “presence” of Holmes hovers over each chapter, but putting Watson in the foreground gives the book a particular flavour. As Anthony Lejeune puts it in his foreword to this Capuchin Classics edition, you can stereotype Holmes but not Watson. It also makes this more of an “adventure story” than a “puzzle-solving” crime novel.

      The most striking fact about Doyle’s “little book” however is how much it owes to the Gothic genre. Whilst most Holmes stories have a gothic element, this is generally of the Dickensian “London” type, where evil is battled in foggy city streets. Here however we’re in the classic territory of solitary country mansions, nightly terrors, eerie moorland, mires which entrap unwary men and beasts, escaped convicts, femmes fatales, family curses and, to top it all, a giant ghostly hound with flaring nostrils. And although the final neat (yet complex) solution explains away the supernatural trappings (as is typical of that strand of “rationalistic” Gothic which runs from Ann Radcliffe to Scooby-Doo), the brooding sense of fear and dread is difficult to shake off and gives the novel its distinctive aftertaste.

      This is an undisputed classic.
    • 5/5
      This must be at least the third, and maybe as much as the fifth time I've read this novel. And damn if it simply doesn't just get better with each re-read.

      I've enjoyed all of the Holmes cases up to this point—some, obviously more than others—but none as much as this one. The atmosphere of Grimpen Mire, of the home of the Baskervilles, the puzzle of the Stapletons...all of it. It all works, and it works so well.

      With a bunch of books still left to read in the Doyle series of Holmes and Watson adventures, I don't believe any of them will match this one.
    • 5/5
      Oh, this is exactly what I look for in a Sherlock Holmes adventure. Mystery, mishap, twists, turns, and something grotesque that turns out to be perfectly logical and explainable. Still as good as I remembered it being.
    • 3/5
      For my first Sherlock Holmes book, this was a good one! I enjoyed the story and was genuinely puzzled until near the end, when I finally figured it out. It was a short, fun read - I'll definitely pick up another Sherlock Holmes!
    • 5/5
      Holmes’ cool logic meets Gothic horror in this, the most famous of the Sherlock novels. The eerie setting does not disappoint, with the centuries-old Baskerville Hall, the deadly mire, and the moonlit moor. These make a wonderful atmosphere for an intricate mystery. The tone is on point, the twists and turns really deliver, and the secondary characters are quite compelling. I especially liked the young Sir Henry, a man of action and decision whose powerful persona is like to that of Sherlock. Sherlock, John Watson, and Sir Henry are all newcomers to Baskerville Hall, and it was fascinating to watch the ways in which each of them handled the transition to such an unusual and dangerous place. This novel certainly delivers, and it completely deserves all its hype. Moody and dark, and utterly unforgettable.
    • 4/5
      Sherlock Holmes mystery taking place in England, told by his accomplice, Dr. Watson. It has a rather slow beginning, but the end makes up for it with suspense and action.
    • 5/5
      Classic Sherlock Holmes at his finest. A great story with thrills along the way. I've read and seen the movie versions of this story multiple times, but I still enjoy reading this over and over again. The story never gets old.
    • 5/5
      Actually now having "read" it, after having seen so many film versions. I had little trouble "seeing" it all happen.