Rating: 4.5 stars
(Audible)
Sir Henry Baskerville comes to visit Sherlock Holmes to ask for protection against an ominous threat. He has just inherited the Baskerville estate after his relative, Charles Baskerville, died from some sort of grim attack. While in London, Henry receives a note telling him he is in danger. Weirdly, several of his boots go missing, and Holmes and Watson discover that he is being followed by someone. Watson decides to travel with Henry to the estate, while Homes stays behind because of other, more pressing, business.
When they arrive, Watson is enchanted by the moor surrounding the estate, and he spends some time walking it and meeting the residents in an attempt to figure out what happened. People keep mentioning a hound, and he hears howling several times. To make matters more complicated, there is an escaped criminal on the moor somewhere. He writes letters to Holmes to keep him up to date on his discoveries. Watson is not sure who to trust, and keeping Henry safe proves to be a bit more challenging than he first anticipated...
I somehow have avoided spoilers for this book for my entire life, and so I was pretty thrilled to get to listen to this on Audible and experience the story that way. The narrator is terrific, and the story has that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle flair that makes it quite entertaining. It has that certain English charm to it with the somewhat boring and mundane details being hashed out. I haven't read too many of the Sherlock Holmes stories, but I liked how this one was a bit longer, and there were certainly quite a few twists and turns throughout the book. The mystery got explained in great detail at the end, which was both interesting and also a little annoying. But I really enjoyed this book and will probably read/listen to the other stories at some point.
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