A Study in Scarlet & The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER / 1986]

A Study in Scarlet & The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [SHERLOCK #3] SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED EDITON [1986] READER'S DIGEST / WORLD'S BEST READING Gilded heavyweight hardcover. Features leatherette spine, marbled endpapers, original inserts and illustrations by Richard Lebenson and an afterword by Fred Strebeigh Book is in excellent condition; like new with minor shelf wear. Small stain on outer text block; not visible on interior.  Sherlock Holmes investigates the murder of two Americans whose deaths have some mysterious connection to sinister Socialist groups gathering power in both Britain and America. Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristically dismisses the theory as nonsense. And immersed in another case, he sends Watson to Devon to protect the Baskerville heir and observe the suspects close at h