NOVEL SUMMARY

Title : The Hound of Baskervilles

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Year : 2003

Publisher : PT. Dian Rakyat

City : Jakarta

Page : 64

This book tells about the story of a famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. He has a good friend whose name is Doctor Watson. One day, there was a stranger come to their house. The man was asking for help about the case of someone death to the Sherlock Holmes. The death of Sir Charles Baskerville was very strange because some people think it was caused by a curse on the Baskerville family. The man who didn’t believe it at the first time became believe it but Sherlock Holmes didn’t believe it. He asked doctor Watson to accompany another strange man, Sir Henry Baskerville, who is Sir Charles’s nephew to the Baskerville Hall to check what was actually going on there. It was the place where the tragedy happened. Doctor Watson kept sending mails to Sherlock Homes about a lot of important things in Baskerville. It could help Sherlock Holmes to analyze the case when he wasn’t there. Some of strange things happened there and finally, he could find out that the death of Sir Henry was actually caused by Roger Baskerville or Mr. Stapleton. He is the unknown nephew of Sir Charles. He wanted money from the Baskerville. He frightened Sir Charles with the black dog. That was the reason why Sir Charles was dead by heart attack.