1. The Hound of the Baskervilles

2. The Hound of the Baskervilles Chapter One: Mr
The Hound of the Baskervilles   Chapter One: Mr. Sherlock Holmes   Setting: Baker Street   Plot: contest of wits; introduction to a mystery   Purpose: Establishes Holmes’ superiority and humanity Characters: Describe the following men with 3 good adjectives. Holmes? Watson? Dr. Mortimer?    

3. Chapter Two: The Curse of the Baskervilles   Setting: Baker Street   Plot: The story begins! Story of Hugo Baskerville (1640s) was supernatural. Summary: Sir Hugo abducted a young maiden, but she escaped and Hugo angrily sends the hounds after her. p. 23—The revelers found the maiden dead of fear and fatigue and the hound tearing the throat from Sir Hugo.      

4. p. 25—Baskervilles have been unhappy in their deaths Warning: Do not cross the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted. P. 27—Sir Charles Baskerville’s death is recounted Lesson: Learn not to fear the past, but to be circumspect in the future.   Holmes’s Reaction: views it as a fairy tale

5. Clues:
footprints alter character
Sir Charles’s weak heart
Sir Charles fears the hound.
Hound’s footprints near the body    
Characters:
Sir Charles =widower, strong-minded, shrewd, practical, unimaginative
Hugo Baskerville = wild, profane, and godless

6. Chapter Three: The Problem
Setting: Baker Street
Plot: Continued Story
Mortimer believes in the supernatural (p. 37).
Sir Henry is arriving.
Roger Baskerville (black sheep of the family) died in South America.
Holmes requests shag tobacco. (pp )
Holmes visits Devonshire in spirit.

7. Clues:
p. 35—ash dropped twice
“Dr. Mortimer…colleague, Watson, after our own heart”—Sherlock Holmes

8. Chapter Four: Sir Henry Baskerville
Setting: Baker Street
Characters:
Sir Henry –small, alert, dark-eyed man of thirty, sturdily built gentleman
Cartwright—young boy from the messenger office
Plot:
Presentation of the letter and warning note
Sherlock Holmes determines that someone is trying to give Sir Henry a “friendly warning.”
Dr. Watson is to accompany Sir Henry to Baskerville Hall.

9. Clues:
Times newspaper
nail scissors
carelessness/agitation
hotel pen
lost boot
bearded man
hansom cab

10. Setting: Northumberland Hotel and Baker Street Plot:
Chapter Five: Three Broken Threads
Setting: Northumberland Hotel and Baker Street
Plot:
case of the missing boot
suspicion raised about Barrymore
info on Sir Henry’s fortune
boot reappears
cunning intelligence of the criminal matermind

11. bearded man (possibly Barrymore) three broken threads:
Chapter Five: Three Broken Threads
Clues:
missing shoe
bearded man (possibly Barrymore)
three broken threads:
newspaper clue is useless
Barrymore is at Baskerville Hall.
The man in the cab is “Sherlock Holmes.”
Characters:
cabman (John Clayton)
bearded man
Famous lines: “ugly, dangerous business”

12. Chapter Six: Baskerville Hall
Setting: Baskerville Hall—old, dark, big, empty
Plot:
Baskerville and Watson depart for Baskerville Hall.
A convict has escaped from Princetown.
The Barrymores wish to leave the hall.he hall.
Watson hears a woman sobbing at night.

13. Chapter Six: Baskerville Hall
Clues: woman crying
Characters:
Seldon, the Notting Hill murderer
Mr. and Mrs. Barrymore

14. Chapter 7: The Stapletons of Merripit House
Setting: Baskerville Hall
Plot:
Barrymore lies about his wife crying.
Barrymore did not directly receive the telegram.
Watson meets Stapleton.
People of the moor, including Stapleton, believe the legend of the hound.
Watson first hears the hound while on the moor.
Watson is warned by Beryl Stapleton to “go back to London.”

15. Chapter 7: The Stapletons of Merripit House
Clues:
the telegram
Stapleton inquires after Holmes.
Beryl is afraid her brother will hear her warning.
Characters:
Jack Stapleton
Beryl Stapleton

16. Chapter 8: First Report of Dr. Watson
Setting: Baskerville Hall, October 13th
Plot: epistle/letter form
The convict appears to be gone.
Sir Henry is attracted to Beryl.
Stapleton shows the spot where the first Hugo died—fostering this myth/fear.
Frankland of Lafter Hall
Barrymore’s nightly vigils

17. Chapter 8: First Report of Dr. Watson
Clues:
Barrymore’s secret signals
Characters:
Frankland

18. Chapter 9: Second Report of Dr. Watson
Setting: Baskerville Hall, Oct. 15th
Plot:
Barrymore’s mysterious conduct
Sir Henry meets Beryl alone on the moor.
Jack Stapleton becomes angry with Sir Henry .
Barrymore is signaling the convict on the moor.
The convict is Mrs. Barrymore’s brother, Selden.
Sir Henry hears the hound.
Mysterious man on the tor

19. Chapter 9: Second Report of Dr. Watson
Purpose: brings further suspicion upon Stapleton
Clues:
Man on the Tor
Characters:

20. Chapter 10: Diary of Dr. Watson
 Setting: Baskerville Hall, October 16th
 Plot:
False emphasis on the man on the moor
Barrymores are arranging to send Selden out of the country.
Sir Charles was waiting for Laura Lyons the night he died.
Clues: Characters:
Initials L.L. Laura Lyons

21. Chapter 11: The Man on the Tor
Setting: Baskerville Hall /Coombe Tracey
Plot:
Watson visits and confronts Laura Lyons.
Frankland has seen a boy delivering the food.
Resolution: Sherlock Holmes=Man on the Tor
Clues:
Unsolved=Laura Lyons is concealing information.

22. Chapter 12: Death on the Moor
Setting: the moor
Plot: Sherlock Holmes’s discoveries
Stapleton is courting Laura Lyons.
Beryl is Stapleton’s wife.
Stapleton slipped when he admitted he was a schoolmaster.
The hound attacks Selden instead of Sir Henry.
Stapleton is “shocked” to see the convict.
Holmes and Watson agree not to tell Sir Henry about the hound.

23. Chapter 13: Fixing the Nets Setting: Baskerville Hall Plot:
Holmes informs the Barrymores of Selden’s death.
Stapleton’s picture=Hugo
Sir Henry agrees to walk home across the moor.
Visit to Laura Lyons
She did not know about Beryl.
Stapleton dictated the letter to Sir Charles and frightened Laura Lyons into silence.
Lestrade arrives with the warrant.

24. Chapter 14: HOTB
Setting: Merripit House/Moor
Plot:
Sir Henry Baskerville dines alone with Stapleton.
Fog threatens to destroy their plans.
Holmes kills the hound and discovers that phosphorus was used to create the “glowing” effect.
Beryl Stapleton is found bound and gagged.
Sir Henry is delirious and must regain his health.
Holmes finds the boot in the Grimpen Mire.

25. Chapter 15: A Retrospection
Setting: Baker Street
Plot:
Holmes recounts the events point by point for Watson.
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