《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》简介(英语)

The Hound of the Baskervilles 《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》简介 Dr Mortimer has come to Sherlock Holmes' rooms in Baker street to hire his services. His friend Sir Charles Baskerville has recently died in strange circumstances. He tells how Sir Charles, who lived in a large house in the country, had become very worried and nervous in the months preceding his death. Sir Charles had grown up in South Africa and only recently returned to live in the family home in Devon, in the southwest of England. When he returns, he is told of a local legend concerning his family. It is the legend of a mysterious huge black dog which attacked and killed one of sir Charles' ancestors hundreds of years ago. The local people call the dog "the hound of the Baskervilles" and believe it will come again. At first Sir Charles thinks the story is nonsense. But then he starts to think he can hear the dog at night, on the moors—the wild, open country where the house is situated. He begins to feel threatened and the shares his fears with Mortimer. Not long afterwards, Sir Charles died suddenly in his own garden. He has been walking along a path, and stopped near a gate which led onto the moor, perhaps to smoke a cigarette. The body is found by a servant who calls dr Mortimer. There are no injuries, and the doctor concludes that sir Charles has died of a heart attack. But he is surprised to see, just a few yards away, the footprints of an enormous hound. Could the strange footprints be connected with the death of sir Charles?