The Hound and the Baskervilles is the most famous of all the Sherlock Homes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. There are many film and TV versions of the story and it is even a rock opera.

《巴斯克維爾之犬》是根據福爾摩斯最有名的故事改編。這個故事已經改編為電影、電視，甚至有搖滾歌劇版本。

Dr Mortimer, a country doctor from Devon, visits Homes and Watson in London. He reads the legend of the Baskervilles. It tells a huge black hound or giant dog that haunts the Baskerville family. Family members always die sudden and mysterious deaths. In the final chapters of the book the hound appears and Holmes discovers the murderer at last.

模泰爾博士造訪福爾摩斯和華生，想要解開巴斯克維爾之犬的秘密，這隻狗對巴斯克維爾家族而言是個詛咒，讓家人莫名其妙死亡。福爾摩斯解開了謎題並在最後抓到兇手。

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Arthur Conan Doyle (柯南‧道爾) is the inventor of Sherlock Homes, the world’s most famous fictional detective. Doyle is born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1859. He works as doctor until 1891 but he has a passion for writing stories. His first story is a novel called A Study in Scarlet. He then writes a series of short stories called The Adventures of Sherlock Homes, which are published in installments by the The Strnad Magazine. The public love them, and want to read more about Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friends, Dr Watson. Conan Doyle writes 56 Sherlock Homes stories in total.

Conan Doyle dies in 1930. Sherlock Holmes’s fictional house in Baker Street is now a museum.

Contents目錄

About this Book

        For the Student

        For the Teacher

        Level 1: Structures

About the Author

The Hound of the Baskervilles

        Before Reading

        The Hound of the Baskervilles

After Reading