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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

No. 8 in Mavenhill Classics, this annotated edition presents Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous Sherlock Holmes novel, with a foreword by A.M. Khalifa and clear chapter-by-chapter summaries. For generations the Baskervilles have lived under a curse: a spectral hound that hunts the men of the…

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