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Hound Of The Baskervilles
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The creature howled in the moonlight and sent shivers down people’s spines. This very scary mystery novel was written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1983 (Page 1) and is called “The Hound Of The Baskervilles”. This fiction mystery is about Sherlock Holmes and his partner, Dr. Watson. The duo solves mysteries in the town of London, England . (We learn that on page 4-5) The author of the book uses many types of suspense to make the reader want to read more, including cliffhangers (One example is at page 159) at the end of chapters and making you think that you are in the book with the characters.

The main conflict in “The Hound Of The Baskervilles” is a very large creature terrorizes the people of London, and one person gets killed by the hound. (Page 16-18) The family of the person who gets killed feel like they are in danger, so they go to Holmes and Watson for help. (Page 45-52) Holmes sends Watson with the Baskervilles to go live with them because Holmes has to go do other things. The problem is solved when the hound gets killed and …show more content…
The book would’ve been better if you added a plot twist. That would make the story a lot more fun to read and get the readers on the edges of their seats. Some spots that made you want to keep reading was at page 73 (Page 73… Duhh) The clues on the last few pages really gave the answer away to the reader, and the author could’ve been a little bit more sneaky and hide those details to the end. (Page 222-232 gave it away to a lot of
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