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Place

Baker Street

The London lodgings Sherlock Holmes shares with Watson, where they pore over the ordnance map of the moor and Holmes broods on the case in a fog of strong tobacco. It is the detective's headquarters, from which the early threads of the Baskerville problem are pulled.

Chapter IV. Sir Henry Baskerville

The interview with Sir Henry is held here, and from here Holmes dispatches the boy Cartwright to hunt the cut-up Times among the Charing Cross hotels.

Chapter V. Three Broken Threads

The cabman who drove the mysterious watcher comes here to be questioned.

Chapter XII. Death on the Moor

Holmes admits he had only pretended to be working from his Baker Street rooms while he was in truth hidden on the moor.

Chapter XIII. Fixing the Nets

He uses the address in a decoy wire to Sir Henry about a dropped pocketbook.

Chapter XV. A Retrospection

By its blazing fire, weeks later, Holmes retells the whole Baskerville case to Watson.

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