Summary “Dog of the Baskervilles” Doyle
In the beginning of the story, the detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson are talking with their visitor – the physician James Mortimer. He reads Sherlock Holmes and Watson a legend about the curse of the Baskervilles. His suddenly dead patient Charles Baskerville was very serious about this legend.
In the past, one of the ancestors of the late Charles was rampant and cruel. He kidnapped the daughter of a farmer. Locking the girl, Hugo sat down to feast. The captive managed to escape. She headed across the swamps home. Having let the dogs follow the trail, he rushed after the fugitive, his friends went after them. On the lawn, they saw the bodies of the girl and Hugo. Above the corpse of the man stood a disgusting monster, like a dog, and his throat was tormented. The man who recorded the legend warned his descendants to beware of going out on the swamps at night.
James Mortimer said that Sir Charles was found dead near the wicket gate leading to the
It becomes known that a convict is hiding on peat bogs. It’s the brother of Barrymore’s butler’s wife. Sir Henry promises not to give anyone away. Barrymore says that in the fireplace miraculously survived a piece of letter to Sir Charles, signed “LL”. It was asked to be at the gate at ten o’clock in the
Entering the marsh, Watson noticed a man there. He managed to find in the empty hut a note scrawled with a pencil stating that Watson had left for Coombe-Tracy. “Watson decided to wait for the inhabitant of the hut.” Suddenly a familiar voice is heard belonging to Sherlock Holmes. “The detective knows that the woman Stapleton gives to everyone for her sister, in fact, his wife. “Holmes and Watson hear a terrible scream, run to the rescue, see the convict’s body.” Stapleton arises.
The next day Henry Baskerville goes to Stapleton, and Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and the detective from London Lestrade, hide behind the house. Sir Henry comes back, and Stapleton lets in his tracks a huge, black dog. In addition, as it later became known, her eyes and mouth were smeared with nothing more than a phosphorescent compound. Holmes had time to shoot the dog. For Henry, all that happened was a tremendous shock, and especially that the beloved woman is Stapleton’s wife. She was tied up in the back room. Stapleton disappeared, perhaps he was swallowed by a swamp.
Rascal Stapleton was a descendant of one of the branches of the Baskervilles, who dreamed of becoming an heir to the fortune. He ordered Laura Lyons first to write to Charles Baskerville, and later to abandon the planned date. This woman and Stapleton’s wife were entirely in the power of Stapleton, but his wife still stopped submitting to him.
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