WHAT better way to enjoy a creepy Sherlock Holmes story than in the dark with a picnic and a bottle of wine?

Around 200 people did exactly that when they filled Gilbert White’s Garden at Selborne on on the August bank holiday Sunday night to see a production of The Hound of the Baskervilles by the Charterhouse Theatre Company who, as always gave an outstanding performance by creating the build up to the mystery of the hound that haunts Dartmoor.

The hound was represented as an invisible presence as it would have been difficult having the real thing on the small stage.

A spokesman for Gilbert White’s House said: “Although it had been cold in the day things had warmed up by evening and our guests were able to enjoy their picnics in the garden as darkness fell.

“We always put on an open-air play on the August bank holiday Sunday and we will be doing the same next year again with the Charterhouse Theatre Company.”