THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLS - BY SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely in Dartmoor, Devon, in England's West Country and follows Holmes and Watson investigating the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. A British classic. Presented from the collection of Laura's Library.