![]() ![]() Baskerville and his victim were found dead. ![]() Aided by friends, he pursued the girl onto the desolate moor. ![]() She escaped and the furious Baskerville offered his soul to the devil if he could recapture her. He kidnapped her and imprisoned her in his bedroom. According to an old account, said to have been written in 1742 and describing events which had occurred a century earlier still, during the English Civil War, Hugo Baskerville was infatuated with a farmer's daughter. Mortimer explains that the Baskerville family is afflicted by a curse. Fearing for the safety of Sir Charles's nephew and the only known heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, Dr James Mortimer travels to London and asks Sherlock Holmes for help in figuring out the case. Sir Charles Baskerville, baronet, is found dead on the grounds of his country house, Baskerville Hall. ![]()
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