The hound of Baskervilles

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Sir A. Conan Doyle he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland 1859. He was the author to the famous histories about Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson.
He was a medical doctor and take part in the war between England and South Africa. That’s why he got the royal title of Sir. He wrote 60 stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. He write also other books. Sir A. Conan Doyle died 1930, 71 years old.

The story take place in south west of England in Devonshire on Baskerville hall. The big house is placed out of a moor called Dartmoor.
It all begins whit a man killed in a mysteries way out in Dartmoor. The moor is a wild, wet, lonely and dark place. Where the local people not go voluntary. Because there is a legend about a enormous dog, a dog from hell how kills people. A specially the legend is told in the Baskerville family. The dead man in the moor is Sir Charles Baskerville and he shows signs on the dead body possible coming from a huge dog or something similar.
One evening Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson get a visitor, a good friend called James Mortimer. He asked for help to solve the problem whit the death of Sir Charles Baskerville . Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson accept the case and go to Dartmoor and Baskerville hall. In spit of all effort and tricks to solve the mystery they notice that they are followed where every they go, and it is obvious that there is someone how not want this case to be solved.
After one further death of a men out on the moor is Sherlock Holmes after a lot of thinking finally the murder on the tracks. It appears to be Mr Stapleton, a relative how wants the family fortune and Baskerville hall. He used the legend and trained a huge dog to kill.

I found this story not so realistic but very entertaining. I don’t think it is possible to create such a “murder machine” out of a ordinary dog.

Sherlock Holmes is the main character, he is a educated man, and he has the talent to see analyse and understand the motive in a action. He is created some kind of puzzle and solve each case white putting one piece at the time in right place. He is a very brave man who puts him self in many dangerous situation. Even then he is a man who solve the case by mostly own thinking he is clever enough to have brilliant assistant in Dr Watson.

I found this book very entertaining and interesting because it always happened something. Even if the book is written long time ago it is very good. This is my first book in English and I don’t find it so hard to read as ...