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Hound of the Baskervilles, The
     
Hound of the Baskervilles, The
(1902) a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in which the detective Sherlock Holmes tries to find out who is responsible for killing two people who seem to have been attacked by a large hunting dog, but who have really been murdered
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