The Hound of the Baskervilles

Chapter 3By Will and Madison

Table of Contents 

Characters / Suspects 

Purpose of Chapter / Important events

Clues / evidence

Which detective elements are presented?

Quotes to support this.

Characters and Suspects 

• Sherlock Holmes     Thinks about Baskerville death while everyone is out  of his house • Dr. Watson

    Holmes's sidekick, leaves Holmes alone while he thinks about crime • Hugo Baskerville

    Killed by a suposed enormous dog which started a family curse• Mr. Henry Baskerville 

    Heir to Sir Charles Baskerville

Characters Continued

• Sir Charles BaskervilleKilled by dog Mortimer asks him to investigate death  • Dr. Mortimer

presents manuscripit to Holmes and discusses it with himPicturesDr. Mortimer        Holmes and Watson     Henry Baskerville

Purpose and Events

• Dr. Mortimer retells the accounts from three people of the sighting of the enormous dog who all described it as"huge, luminous, ghastly, and spectral.

 • Dr. Mortimer explains the alley near the moor and where Sir

Charles Baskerville walked along every night. • Dr. Mortimer explains the death and tells Holmes that he

has to go pick up Mr. Henry Baskerville from the Waterloo train station and Holmes tells him to call upon him in 24 hours until he decides what to do.

Events Continued 

• Holmes tells Watson to leave him alone in his house while he thinks about what to do.

  • Holmes decides that he was running along the alley and that

the man was crazed with fear.

Clues

Marks were found twenty yards from the body made by the dog. Footprints that changed direction near the Yew Alley.

Detective Elements

Memorable detectiveSherlock Holmes is a memorable detective. For example he sits in his house with lots of tobacco smoke and lets his spirit "roam" the crime scene. Sherlock also figures out that the man was running just becuase of the change in direction from the footprints.

Quotes

" If only I had been there, it is evident a case of extrodinary intrest, and one which presented immense opportunities to the scientific expert"(Conan Doyle 27). Holmes to Mortimer " I knew that seclusion and solitude were very necessary for my friend in those hours of intense mental concentration"(Conan Doyle 30). Watson thinking about Holmes " The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes"(Conan Doyle 30).    

The End of Chapter 3