Back cover: "It's an ugly business, Watson, an ugly, dangerous business, and the more I see of it the less I like it..." Holmes is referring to the recent death of Sir Charles Baskerville. For the "luminous, ghastly, and spectral" hound of family legend has been seen roaming the moors at night, and it appears that the new baronet, Sir Henry has inherited, along with the ancient home and vast wealth of his family, a dreadful destiny....
