The Hound of the Baskervilles

James Mortimer, the man of science, ask of Sherlock Holmes, the specialist in crime? He then proceeded down the alley, and it was at the far end of it that his body was discovered. What is he after?” Holmes’s voice sank as he answered: “It is murder, Watson—refined, cold-blooded, deliberate murder. He meant in the end to have the estate, and he was ready to use any tool or run any risk for that end.