“Over the green squares of the fields and the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance like some fantastic landscape in a dream. Baskerville sat for a long time, his gaze fixed upon it, and I read upon his eager face how much it meant to him, this first sight of that strange spot where the men of his blood had held sway so long and left their mark so deep.”

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About Arthur Conan Doyle

British physician and author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Doyle is best known for creating the detective Sherlock Holmes. His stories and novels, blending logic and observation, remain foundational to detective fiction and popular culture.

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