The voices of The Hound of the Baskervilles
13 voices in The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. Every one is a separate voice, cast to the character as written.
- Narrator — Watson's first-person literary narration — measured, atmospheric, building dread on the Devonshire moors.
- Sherlock Holmes — The world's only consulting detective. Razor-sharp analytical mind, cold precision, theatrical wit. Appears primarily at the bookends of the case while Watson operates in Devonshire.
- Dr. Watson — Holmes's loyal companion, sent alone to Dartmoor as Holmes's eyes. A former army surgeon, earnest and brave, increasingly unnerved by the moor's atmosphere.
- Sir Henry Baskerville — The young Canadian-raised heir to the Baskerville estate. Blunt, energetic, unafraid — a frontier personality transplanted into the English aristocracy.
- Dr. Mortimer — A thin, nervous country doctor and amateur scientist who brings the Baskerville case to Holmes. Earnest and scholarly, slightly fussy.
- Stapleton — A naturalist and entomologist on the moor, seemingly friendly and intellectual. In reality a ruthless Baskerville heir who has trained a phosphorus-painted hound to terrorise his victims to death.
- Beryl Stapleton — Stapleton's wife, kept as his prisoner and accomplice under the pretence of being his sister. South American in origin, cultured, beautiful, and living in barely suppressed terror.
- Mrs. Barrymore — The housekeeper at Baskerville Hall, secretive and tearful. Her cries in the night unsettle Watson; she is sheltering her fugitive brother Selden on the moor.
- Barrymore — The bearded butler of Baskerville Hall, stiff and formal, concealing his nightly signals to the escaped convict Selden on the moor.
- Mrs. Laura Lyons — A typist in Coombe Tracey, daughter of the eccentric Frankland. Stapleton used her romantic feelings for him to manipulate her into luring Sir Charles to his death.
- Selden — A notoriously violent escaped convict hiding on the moor — Mrs. Barrymore's brother. Wild, desperate, dangerous.
- Inspector Lestrade — Scotland Yard's reliable if unimaginative inspector, called in for the final confrontation at Baskerville Hall.
- Mr. Frankland — An eccentric, litigious local landowner who spends his days peering through a telescope and fighting legal battles with his neighbours for sport.
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