The history of The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Mortimer visited Holmes and Watson because he had left his stick at Holmes. Mortimer ask help to Sherlock Holmes to solve the mistery of his friend Sir Charles Baskervilles death, he think he die because have a curse on the baskerville family, the curse is about a hound who kill the Baskervilles and Mortimer start talking about this curse, who iniciate with Sir Hugo. The legend about Sir Hugo said that he liked a poor girl but she was not in love with him, so one night he and his companions went to her poor house and carried her off. They brought her to Baskervilles Hall and locked her. The girl was afraid and she escaped, when Sir Hugo saw she had escaped, he and his drank friends rode after the hounds trying to catch her. Suddenly Hugo and his horse disappeared in the moor. She had fallen down into a hole, she had died and near her was Sir Hugo's body and a hound biting his throat. Since that many of the Baskervilles had been unhappy in their deaths, the legend said if Sir Charles crossed the moor, the power of evil would take his life. Sir Charles was a dangerous man, he had no children. One night he went for a walk and never returned. Mr. Barrymore, his servant,saw his body, it had an ugly expression on his face, he had died of a heart attack and his body had not been attacked because hounds never attack a dead body. The last Baskerville was Henrry, Sir Charles nephew (he lived in London). Sir Charles had a brother, Rodger but he had died in Centro America, he had had a son Stapleton who married Beryl. They changed their names because their surname was not popular, but nobody new it. Henrry lived in London and gave Mr. Holmes a letter he had received, it was a threat. When he was in the hotel, one of his new boots disappeared, it had been stolen by Stapleton who wanted to give the scent to the hound to attack, but as the new one had no scent Stapleton changed it for an old one.