El doctor Mortimer viaja a Londres buscando la ayuda de Sherlock Holmes, despu廥 de que sir Charles Baskerville aparezca muerto -en extra鎙s circunstancias- en un sendero de un p嫫amo en un condado al suroeste de Inglaterra. Mortimer informa a Holmes y Watson sobre las huellas de un sabueso que fueron encontradas a poca distancia del cad嫛er. Tambi幯 lee un manuscrito sobre la «maldici鏮 de los Baskerville , la cual se inicia con Hugo de Baskerville, quien result?muerto por el ataque de un infernal sabueso como castigo a su maldad.
Doctor Mortimer travels to London seeking the help of Sherlock Holmes, after Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead - under strange circumstances - on a moor path in a south west England county. Mortimer informs Holmes and Watson about the tracks of a hound that were found a short distance from the corpse. He also reads a manuscript on the "curse of the Baskervilles", which begins with Hugo de Baskerville, who was killed by an infernal hound as punishment for his wickedness.