Person
Sir Charles Baskerville
Also known as Sir Charles.
The late master of Baskerville Hall, a wealthy and generous squire who made a fortune in South African speculation and brought it home to restore his fallen line. Childless, widowed, simple in his tastes yet eccentric and increasingly nervous, he died suddenly some three months before the story opens, found at the end of his yew alley after his nightly walk; the inquest called it heart failure.
Chapter III. The Problem
Holmes reconstructs his last minutes: he had stood waiting at the moor-gate, then fled in terror down the alley until his weak heart gave out.
Chapter V. Three Broken Threads
His estate proves to be worth close on a million pounds, the great residue going to his heir, Sir Henry.
Chapter VII. The Stapletons of Merripit House
The Stapletons recall him as a friend whose weak heart and dread of the family legend, Stapleton believes, together brought on his end.
Chapter IX. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson]
His hound-haunted death grows harder for Sir Henry to dismiss after the long howl rolls over the night moor.
Chapter X. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
A new fact surfaces: he went to the moor-gate that night to keep an appointment by letter with a woman whose initials were L. L.
Chapter XII. Death on the Moor
Holmes admits that, though they know he died of sheer fright, they still cannot prove his death was murder.
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