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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902 · 59,174 words
2:34:04
at 410 wpm · the whole book
The audiobook runs about six and a half hours.

A country doctor arrives at Baker Street with a legend and a corpse: a Devon baronet dead on the moor, his face frozen in terror, and near the body the footprints of a gigantic hound. Holmes sends Watson ahead to the fog-bound Hall to guard the last heir while he works unseen, and the novel threads a supernatural dread through the coldest rational mind in fiction — every howl on the moor daring you to name a natural cause. The story that raised Sherlock Holmes from the dead, and still the finest of his cases: a ghost story built to make a skeptic sweat.

15 chapters · begin at the beginning
Text: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (1902), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. · You read at the book's authored pace; nothing here is stored anywhere but this browser. · About Midsentence