That's because the place simply does not exist. Though it was a product of Doyle's imagination, it was based on a real location. Baskerville was named after Henry Baskerville , the coach driver for journalist Bertram Robinson. Stapleton bound and gagged. Waking up, Mrs.
Stapleton makes sure Sir Henry is safe and the hound is dead, and then informs the detectives of her husband's hiding place in the Grimpen mire, the deadly marshland where he kept his hound. The glow on the hound's body and head is actually phosphorus, a preparation applied to it by Stapleton to give the hound an eerie supernatural appearance.
Stapleton steals one of Sir Henry's boots to train the hound to be attracted to Sir Henry's scent and then starves the hound to make it more vicious. One of the novel's primary themes is the conflict between rationalism and superstition. Much about the hound case suggest occult explanations, but Holmes steadfastly refuses to consider such possibilities.
It is easy to understand why many turn to such explanations. Jack Stapleton is the main antagonist of the Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound Of The Baskervilles and was originally a rather innocent-looking former schoolmaster found of chasing butterflies on the moors and pursuing antiquarian interests. Mortimer suggests that the death was the result of some supernatural evil, and he describes his own interviews with locals, who had seen a spectral hound roaming the moors.
Sir Henry arrives with Mortimer early the next morning. The young Baskerville has odd news: he's received an ominous letter advising him to stay away from the moor if he values his life or his sanity. The letter is constructed almost entirely of words cut from a newspaper and glued to paper. The change in footprints, Holmes suggests, indicates running and not tiptoeing.
Holmes also points out that Sir Charles was running in exactly the wrong direction—away from his house and any help he might find. The duo sets aside the case and Holmes takes up his violin. Though sturdy and weather-beaten, Sir Henry's expression showed that he was a gentleman. Just twenty-four hours in London, Sir Henry has already gotten involved in the mystery—he received an anonymous note of warning when he arrived at his hotel.
Said the note: "As you value your life, or your reason, keep away from the moor. Holmes establishes that no one could have known where to reach Sir Henry, so the writer must be following him.
Holmes quickly assesses the typeface and discerns that the words were cut out from yesterday's Times. He goes on to suggest that the culprit used a pair of short-bladed nail scissors, since the longer words are cut with two snips, and that the word moor was handwritten because the author could not find it in print.
By Arthur Conan Doyle. Previous Next. Doctor James Mortimer Click the character infographic to download. Jack Stapleton Mr. Barrymore Mrs. What's Up With the Ending? Tired of ads? It was later discovered that she was helping the escaped convict, who was her brother, by giving him food at night. This was a huge shock but I was glad that she did not have anything to do with the murder. Laura Lyons however, seemed elusive with the answers.
Dr Watson tracked down the tall shadowy figure. You were the shadow? Turned out, Sherlock Holmes had been hiding in the moors all this while. I did not understand this strange joke, no matter how good of a detective he may have been.
He said he wanted to observe the moors from a distance so he sent us here alone. He also said that he had already solved the case, the guts on this man. According to Mr Holmes, the hound was real and belonged to Stapleton, who had seduced Laura and convinced her to lure Sir Charles out of his house by night, to frighten him with the apparition of the legendary hound.
Stapleton was secretly a Baskerville and wanted the inheritance for himself. This sudden appearance of the hound frightened the superstitious Sir Charles and he suffered a heart attack. The scattered pieces came together, it all suddenly made sense.
Now I understood why Mr Holmes was considered such a great detective despite his eccentricities. Henry was furious and wanted Stapleton to be punished. I suggested talking to the police, but Sherlock pointed out that the evidence would not be enough for the jury to incarcerate Stapleton. There was only one way left to prove his guilt — to catch him red-handed. The plan was made to use Henry as bait to lure Stapleton into attacking him with the hound.
That night, the opportunity came. Stapleton invited Henry for a late supper. Henry agreed, knowing that he would be attacked on his way back home. He headed home and as suspected was attacked by the enormous Stapleton pet. Despite the dense fog, Holmes and Watson were able to subdue the beast.
Stapleton, upon discovering what had ensued, started to flee the scene in a panic but fell into the marshlands. We tried to save him before the quicksand engulfed him but were too late. The marsh swallowed him whole and he was gone. We went back to his house only to find Beryl Stapleton tied up there. It turns out she was his wife and not his sister. He only forced her to act as such so that she could seduce Young Henry. All these revelations were very difficult for me to process.
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