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Sir Charles Baskerville, ein reicher und mächtiger Adliger aus der Grafschaft Devonshire, ist unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben gekommen. Offenbar hat ihn der schwarze Geisterhund geholt, der nach einer alten Legende die Familie heimsucht. James Mortimer wendet sich an Sherlock Holmes, um den Tod von Charles Baskerville zu untersuchen. Holmes soll den Erben Henry Baskerville beschützen, da Mortimer befürchtet, dieser fiele dem bösen Fluch ebenfalls zum Opfer.

It is the spring of 1895, and more than a decade of combating eldritch entities has cost Dr. John Watson his beloved wife Mary, and has nearly broken the health of Sherlock Holmes. Yet the companions do not hesitate when they are called to the infamous Bedlam lunatic asylum, where they find an inmate speaking in R’lyehian, the language of the Old Ones. Moreover, the man is horribly scarred and has no memory of who he is. The detectives discover that he was once a scientist, a student of Miskatonic University, and one of two survivors of a doomed voyage down the Miskatonic River.

This collection of stories continues the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-loved fictional detective. In these intriguing tales, Holmes and Watson solve cases that range from the suspicious to the downright strange, and encounter mysteries as diverse as vanishing staff, secret plans and eccentric lodgers.