from: John Curley & Assoc
Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9781555045159
Format: Large Print
ISBN number: 1555045154
Label: John Curley & Assoc
Manufacturer: John Curley & Assoc
Printing Date: 1988-07
Publishing house: John Curley & Assoc
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2 Cassettes, Approx. 2 hours
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For generations, the legend has been passed down. A satanic tale of a gigantic hell-hound, a devil incarnate who stalks the wastes of Dartmoor wreaking a bloody and terrible vengeance upon the heirs of the house of Baskerville.
While a country doctor brings the bizarre and seemingly unearthly circumstances surrounding the death of Sir Charles Baskerville to the attention of Sherlock Holmes, it is the beginning of one of the strangest cases of the great detective's career. Convinced by the arrival of an extraordinary warning that Sir Charles' heir, Henry, is in danger of his life, Holmes dispatches Dr. Watson to accompany the young man to the dark and somber house deep within the bleak Devon moor. With peril at every hand and a murderous escaped convict at large, the mystery deepens. Is the ancient legend true, or is the hideous creature merely a part of a sinister conspiracy whose origins are all too diabolically human? A lavish BBC dramatization featuring Clive Merrison and Michael Williams in the classic partnership of Holmes and Watson.
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A 7th Grade review on
"Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles"
I enjoyed this book. The only problem I found was that the beginning doesn't do a good job of reeling you in. However, the farther into the book you get, the more exciting the plot becomes. Sometimes, the only reason I kept on reading the book was because I knew what was coming next. The story does make up for what it lacks in the beginning in the end.
The case starts out when Dr. James Mortimer brings a case to Sherlock Holmes. The detective dubs it; "Very suspicious indeed." It concerns the mysterious death of a very rich and respected man, Sir Charles Baskerville. He apparently went out for his nightly walk the day before he left for London, afraid of the family curse. Later that night, Sir Charles was found dead with no harm at all to his body. Now the new heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, has been warned to leave Baskerville Hall - or else.
With Sherlock in London, and Watson left alone to deal with the case, there doesn't appear to be much hope to stop the villan. However, the great detective may be up against more than just human forces. The curse of the Baskervilles, started by the evil Sir Hugo in the early 17th century, has been haunting the Baskervilles ever since. Sir Hugo fell in love with a yeoman's daughter and swore he would marry her. He kidnapped her and held her prisoner in Baskerville hall. Shortly after, she escaped. Hugo chased her down the moor on horseback until she died of exhaustion. When Sir Hugo's companions finally caught up with him, he was dead. Standing over his body was an enormous grey hound plucking at his throat. Now the hound has returned, can Sherlock and Watson defeat their greatest enemy yet?
I give
"Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles":4 stars.
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Originally Broadcast On the CBC during 1968
Sherlock Holmes- Henry Comor, Dr. Watson- Gerard Parkes, Barrymore-Gillie Fenwick,
Heed the Baskerville family legend of the Hound: avoid the moors in those hours of the night when the powers of evil are exalted. Every Baskerville that has lived in the family home since the Legend began has met with a violent death. Dr. Mortimer writes to the one man that can help him, Sherlock Holmes, to exorcise the "Legend of the Hound" that plagues the Baskervilles. This radio adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's masterpiece traces Sherlock Holmes' adventure of superstition and revenge on the barren, gloomy moors in this thrilling mystery.
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The very first in Scenario Productions' "The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes" series and taken from the Archives of CBC Radio, this superbly presented radio adventure theater production of The Hound Of The Baskervilles is a multicast presentation of a classic Sherlock Holmes story. This two audio cassette audio book has a two hour running time and is enhanced with music and sound effects for the perfect "theater of the mind" listening experience. This radio theater production of The Hound Of The Baskervilles is enthusiastically recommended for all Sherlock Holmes fans and would make a very popular addition to school and community library audio book collections.
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"The Hound of the Baskervilles" ranks as the most famous and also the best of the four Sherlock Holmes novels. It is the very first Holmes novel I read as a child, and the combination of ancient curse, foreboding moor, and modern danger kept me turning the pages.
The BBC has once again done a masterful job of adapting the novel to the format of radio drama. When I very first stumbled on to the BBC Holmes series, I thought Clive Merrison to be a scandalous over-actor, but going back and rereading some of the Holmes stories for the very first time in decades shows that Merrison, of all the portrayers of Holmes, just might have gotten the oddball genius most nearly right. Holmes had a histrionic streak which caused him to keep his deductions secret until he could reveal them in the most sensational fashion possible, and Merrison captures this quirk of Holmes' character perfectly.
"The Hound" is unique among the Holmes novels because for a large part of the mystery, Holmes' character is offstage, appearing only at the last moment to bring events to a hair-raising denouement. Holmes' joint penchants for secrecy and sensation almost bring his client to grief, but all's well that ends well. This radio play begins, continues, and ends very well.
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