Audio Book catalog 3 ~
conventional CDs
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mp3 CD alternatives available at Decklin's Domain include
The
Hound of the Baskervilles and Silver
Blaze
About The Hound of the Baskervilles ~
This work, published by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1901, occupies
a central place in the Canon of Sherlock Holmes stories, falling between
the much mourned death of the hero in 1891 (reported in 1893) and the
presentation of his triumphant return in 1903. Doyle emphasized that
this book was a reminiscence rather than a resurrection, but it has
peculiar features which suggest that it could be more than that. The
fact that the great detective is apparently missing for six of the
fifteen chapters would surely make a reader of that time connect this
absence with the one he had been bemoaning for the last eight years. He
might derive some comfort from the fact that the villain of this book,
Stapleton, goes to a watery grave in Grimpen Mire, and Holmes himself is
rescued in the nick of time from a similar fate. Does this mean that he
may have escaped from his watery death at Reichenbach Falls? Be that as
it may, this work has by far the strongest writing and character
development of the four books Doyle wrote in novel form. It has been the
basis of several popular movies.
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