The Baskerville family tree in the Hound of the Baskervilles include Jack Stapleton, son of Rodger Baskerville II, Hugo Baskerville, Henry Baskerville, and Charles Baskerville. Also in the family tree are Beryl Stapleton, wife of Jack Stapleton.
No, The hound that killed Charles Baskerville by giving him a heart attack and tried to kill Henry Baskerville was bought by Stapleton so it would look like the curse was real and nobody would suspect him when he tried to claim the baskerville fortune since he was in fact a Baskerville himself. So it was a hound but not the hound from the curse or legend as you might call it.
"On the death of Sir Charles we inquired for this young gentleman [Sir Henry Baskerville], and found that he had been farming in Canada." -- Dr. Mortimer, 'The Hound of the Baskervilles
He was the dead uncle of Sir Henry Baskerville. Sir Henry had been living in Canada, and he had been summoned to London as he was to inherit the Baskerville estate valued at 740 thousand pounds (well over 10 million pounds today).
Sir Charles Baskerville and Selden, an escaped convict who is killed by mistake because the murderer thinks he is Sir Henry Baskerville. If you believe the curse, Hugo Baskerville (circa 1650) and the maiden he kidnapped are also victims.
The Baskerville family tree in the Hound of the Baskervilles include Jack Stapleton, son of Rodger Baskerville II, Hugo Baskerville, Henry Baskerville, and Charles Baskerville. Also in the family tree are Beryl Stapleton, wife of Jack Stapleton.
No, The hound that killed Charles Baskerville by giving him a heart attack and tried to kill Henry Baskerville was bought by Stapleton so it would look like the curse was real and nobody would suspect him when he tried to claim the baskerville fortune since he was in fact a Baskerville himself. So it was a hound but not the hound from the curse or legend as you might call it.
"On the death of Sir Charles we inquired for this young gentleman [Sir Henry Baskerville], and found that he had been farming in Canada." -- Dr. Mortimer, 'The Hound of the Baskervilles
He was the dead uncle of Sir Henry Baskerville. Sir Henry had been living in Canada, and he had been summoned to London as he was to inherit the Baskerville estate valued at 740 thousand pounds (well over 10 million pounds today).
Sir Charles Baskerville and Selden, an escaped convict who is killed by mistake because the murderer thinks he is Sir Henry Baskerville. If you believe the curse, Hugo Baskerville (circa 1650) and the maiden he kidnapped are also victims.
The reader is not told.
Sir Charles had a fatal heart attack while being chased by what appeared to be a large "hell hound." This hound allegedly killed his distant relative Hugo Baskerville as well. In all fairness it was Jack Stapleton's hound with phosphorus around the mouth to give it an unearthly appearance that really did him in. Thus the hound of the baskerville's.
The brutal murder of Sir Charles Baskerville.
Sir Henry Baskerville himself raises the issue of the missing boot at the hotel.
Sir Charles had a fatal heart attack while being chased by what appeared to be a large "hell hound." This hound allegedly killed his distant relative Hugo Baskerville as well. In all fairness it was Jack Stapleton's hound with phosphorus around the mouth to give it an unearthly appearance that really did him in. Thus the hound of the baskerville's.
The climax of the story would probably be when the hound lurks from the shadows to chase Sir Henry Baskerville.
Three main clues in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" are the mysterious deaths linked to the curse of the Baskervilles, the sightings of a phantom hound on the moors, and the discovery of Sir Charles Baskerville's footprints leading away from the house.