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The Untitled series presents Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal Sherlock Holmes stories in definitive Oxford World’s Classics editions, beginning with the masterpiece that brought the great detective back from the dead. In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to the desolate Dartmoor landscape to investigate the terrifying death of Sir Charles Baskerville, a case that intertwines modern science, folk horror, and a supernatural legend of a demonic hound. This volume sets the tone for a collection that celebrates Doyle’s genius for blending Gothic atmosphere with razor-sharp deductive logic, offering readers the quintessential Victorian mystery experience enriched with scholarly introductions and notes.

Each book in the Untitled series offers more than just a classic detective story; it provides a window into the late Victorian and Edwardian imaginations, where colonial anxieties, scientific rationalism, and ancestral folklore collide. With Darryl Jones’s expert introduction exploring the novel’s colonial background and the interplay of the supernatural and the scientific in Doyle’s own life, this volume invites both first-time readers and devoted Sherlockians to rediscover why Holmes remains literature’s most enduring sleuth. The series continues with further Oxford World’s Classics editions of the Holmes canon, each a vital addition to any mystery lover’s library.