When the elderly Lord Charles Hardy dies, the family's ancestral Dartmoor estate goes to his long-lost grandson Henry who arrives from the New World accompanied by the enigmatic Earl of Stafford. Local doctor, Arthur Robinson, suspects the latter manipulates the young lord aiming to seize his fortune. After sightings of a legendary ghostly black dog and explosive confrontations, Robinson questions his assumptions about the eccentric gentry and wonders if Stafford's influence is protecting Henry from his own self-destructive tendencies. Little does he know...
A literary jest, a fantasy sketch about Sir Conan Doyle's world, Victorian London, the creation of The Hound of the Baskervilles and the magic of British literature.