The Hound of Baskerville What is the curse of the Baskervilles and what events brought about its origin? -The curse of the Baskervilles all started with Hugo Baskerville. At about the time of the “Great Revolution,” Hugo fancied a local yeoman's daughter. One day, Hugo kidnapped her and kept her at his house. Luckily the young girl escaped from the mansion. However, he was so outraged at her escape that he made a deal with the devil to release his hound to hunt her down. Some of Hugo’s drunk friends
Holmes and Watson sure do have their hands full with this one. The Hound of the Baskervilles is a very popular crime story written by Sir Cannon Doyle. The story was written in 1901, located in England in an area called Dartmoor. The story is based upon the legend of a family curse. Doyle may have thought of a basic story line to go by, but then had to think of characters and descriptions to go along with it. A harmful beast must have seemed to easy, so he decided to use a hound as the “monster”
sniper, S.S. Colonel Heinz Throvald. Throvald is sent with one mission; kill Zaitsev. Also included in the plot of Robbins’ book are Tania Chernova, Zaitsev’s assistant, and Corporal Nikki Mood, a composite German soldier. Tanis Chernova and Vasily Zaitsev eventually fall in love. The novel eventually ends with the two master snipers, Throvald and Zaitsev, crossing each other’s paths. In somewhat of a cliffhanger, the book finishes off with both Throvald and Zaitsev putting crosshairs on each