First Lines: Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley of Fear

"I am inclined to think -" said I.

First Lines: Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth, -- a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, -- perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self.

First Lines: Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

First Lines: Arthur Conan Doyle - The White Company

The good bell of Beaulieu was ringing.

New Stuff: Arthur Conan Doyle

First Lines: Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet

(art: George Hutchinson)

In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the Army.

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.

The first and probably best in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes series.