Tajemnica Baskerville'ów: Dziwne Przygody Sherlocka Holmes
1902
Tajemnica Baskerville'ów: Dziwne Przygody Sherlocka Holmes
1902
Translated by Eugenia Żmijewska
The most famous of all Holmes adventures. On the mist-wrapped moors of Devon, a legendary hound haunts the Baskerville family, and when Sir Charles dies of apparent terror, the inheritance of Baskerville Hall becomes a death sentence. Dr. Mortimer pleads for Holmes's help, and the great detective dispatches Watson to the wild borderlands while he works in shadow, watching. The fog, the bogs, the lonely mansion, the eerie legend of a spectral beast all conspire to create an atmosphere of mounting dread. Yet Holmes, the apostle of logic, knows that behind every legend lies a very human villain. Stapleton's mask, the true heir's greed, the cleverest use of a hound in literary history, all fall before the master's powers of deduction. This is the quintessential Holmes: brilliant, cold, ultimately triumphant, while Watson narrates with trembling pen and the moors weep in the eternal English rain.
