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The Baskerville Hound

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The Baskerville family is a wealthy family who owns a mansion on a moor. However they have been haunted by a hound who has been killing their family for years. Sir Charles has control of the family’s mansion and money, but that all changed when he was murdered by the hound. There was said to be prints of a hound near the body, proof of the hound’s existence. Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson have the responsibility of taking care of the last member of the Baskerville family, and investigating the legend of the hound. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, made the story legible, and understandable for the reader to read. He wrote a novel that is so intense that the reader would want to proceed reading. This book creates imagery that the
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