Sherlock Holmes: What walks the SILENT 🌫️ moor at Baskerville? | Classic Detective Stories

The Hound of the Baskervilles — the most adapted Sherlock Holmes case ever written, complete in two parts. Total running time 1:53:02. 00:00:00 — Part One: The Powers of Evil (56:32) A family legend two centuries old, a baronet found dead on his own grounds, and an heir arriving from abroad with no idea what waits for him. Holmes stays in London. Watson goes down to Devon alone. 00:56:32 — Part Two: Death on the Moor (56:30) Dartmoor at night: a light signalling from a hillside, a neighbour who watches the Hall a little too closely, and a stretch of mire that swallows anything that steps wrong. Something is out there, and it is not staying away. The through-line here is landscape. This is the one Holmes case where the country itself does most of the work — the moor, the fog, and the distance from Baker Street that leaves Watson without his usual safety net. Search interest is heaviest on the title itself: ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" is the single strongest search term in the whole Holmes canon, and Part One carries most of it. Part Two is where the listening pays off. Recording: Old Time Radio, Mutual Broadcasting System, 1939–1950.