If most of Sherlock Holmes' adventures have the format of a short story, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is a short novel. Perhaps the most successful, certainly the most famous. Here, the famous detective Sherlock Holmes makes his comeback after his presumed death in The Last Problem, although the author wrote the novel as a plot set outside of chronology. The sudden and tragic death of Sir Charles Baskerville has caused great emotion in Devonshire. He had a strong, sagacious and practical mind, yet he expected to die this way and left his friend Doctor Mortimer an old document, dated 1742. It speaks of a curse which could well, in the form of a ferocious cerberus from the underworld, attack Sir Henry de Baskerville, the last descendant of the family. Doctor Mortimer then decides to call on Sherlock Holmes and, tired of waiting for him, initially forgets his cane in the comfortable living room on the first floor at 221B Baker Street...