02115cam a2200265 4500 348797849 TxAuBib 20130821120000.0 860613s1986||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 86061761 //r87 9780895772541 $15.00 089577254X $15.00 TxAuBib Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. Study in scarlet. A study in scarlet / The hound of the Baskervilles / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; illustrations by Greg Spalenka ; afterword by G.K. Chesterton. $15.00: Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association, 1986. 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. A study in Scarlet : In the debut of literature's most famous sleuth, a dead man is discovered in a bloodstained room in Brixton. The only clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, and a word scrawled in blood on the wall. With this investigation begins the partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Their search for the murderer uncovers a story of love and revenge-and heralds a franchise of detective mysteries starring the formidable Holmes. The hound of the Baskervilles: Holmes' most spine chilling mystery is placed in a modern setting in this version with suspense, humor and terror. Sir Henry is heir to the vast Baskerville fortune, a legacy that comes with a family curse death at the fangs of a horror that prowls the moor. Only Holmes can stop the beast. While mysterious lights signal Baskerville Hall and the hound terrifies the countryside, the sleuthing begins and suspicion falls on sinister servants, butterfly collectors, ladies in distress and escaped convicts. Who wrote the letter that summoned the hound? Is Sir Henry's romance with the lovely Kathy doomed? Is the supernatural at work? Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Classics. Mystery Fiction.