The Margin

Place

Princetown

The moorland town with its great convict prison, marked on Holmes's map of the district some fourteen miles from Baskerville Hall across Dartmoor.

Chapter VI. Baskerville Hall

From its prison the convict Selden, the Notting Hill murderer, has escaped, and warders now watch every road and station across the moor.

Chapter XII. Death on the Moor

Watson names it to the approaching Stapleton as the prison the dead man on the rocks had escaped from.

Chapter XIII. Fixing the Nets

Holmes reports Selden's death to its authorities so that the household will be left untroubled.

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The Margin

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Princetown