An
international gathering of Sherlock Holmes fans is on Dartmoor this
week to celebrate one of his most famous cases - the Hound of the
Baskervilles.
This year marks the centenary of the publication of the first episode
of the tale - in which the beast created by Arthur Conan Doyle famously
terrorised the Devon wilderness.
The Holmes fans will visit Dartmoor locations which inspired the Hound
story, first published in the Strand Magazine, inspiring 19 film versions.
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The
wilderness of Dartmoor
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The group of 55
Holmes enthusiasts from America, Canada, Germany and Japan are holding
a week long convention at The Dartmoor Lodge in Ashburton, on the
southern edge of the moor.
Their visit to Dartmoor, with a series of lectures, has been organised
by The Baskerville Hounds, the Dartmoor Sherlock Holmes study group.
On Wednesday members of the Baskverville Hounds group will each dress
in Victorian costume to represent a character from each of the 60
Sherlock Holmes stories.
They will visit the High Moorlands Visitors Centre at Princetown,
in the middle of the moor, a building which used to be Rowe's Duchy
Hotel - where Conan Doyle stayed a century ago while gathering local
colour for the story.
Full
feature on the anniversary of
"The Hound of the Baskervilles
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