Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was
found dead in the park surrounding his manor, in the moors of Devon. The death was attributed to a
heart attack, but according to Mortimer, Sir Charles's face retained an expression of horror, and not
far from the corpse the footprints of a gigantic hound were clearly visible. According to an old legend,
a curse runs in the Baskerville family since the time of the English Ci ...