The book includes the famous story of Arthur Conan Doyle “Baskerville Dog” (1902), the plot of which is based on an old Devonshire legend and the motives of English “Gothic” novels. An investigation into the strange death of the last representative of the ancient aristocratic family leads Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to a cold-blooded and cunning killer. masking their crimes under the attacks of a monstrous dog , which , According to , The Baskerville family has long pursued. The mystery of the family portrait, jealousy, the struggle for inheritance and the phenomenon of the ghost dog in the final narrative create a unique flavor of one of the best works of the detective genre.