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The Sign of the Four: Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan. In 1888 a client, Mary Morstan, comes with two puzzles for Holmes. The first is the disappearance of her father, British Indian Army Captain Arthur Morstan, in December 1878. According to Mary, her father had telegraphed her upon his safe return from India and requested her to meet him at the Langham Hotel in London. When Mary arrived at the hotel, she was told her father had gone out the previous night and not returned. Despite all efforts, no trace has ever been found of him. Mary contacted her father's only friend who was in the same regiment and had since retired to England, one Major John Sholto, but he denied knowing her father had returned. The second puzzle is that she has received six pearls in the mail from an anonymous benefactor, one per year since 1882 after answering an anonymous newspaper query inquiring for her. With the last pearl she received a letter remarking that she has been a wronged woman and asking for a meeting. Holmes takes the case and soon discovers that Major Sholto had died in 1882 and that within a short span of time Mary began to receive the pearls, implying a connection. The only clue Mary can give Holmes is a map of a fortress found in her father's desk with the names of Jonathan Small, Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Khan and Dost Akbar.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: Jun 6th, 2016
  • Pages: 106
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 10.00in - 7.01in - 0.22in - 0.44lb
  • EAN: 9781533648310
  • Categories: • Mystery & Detective - Traditional

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For a long time, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate (not his heirs) dubiously insisted that, because those stories influence the perception and identity of Holmes, any original material featuring Sherlock Holmes (i.e. not adaptations of public domain stories) required their OK. 2/more

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In "A Study in Scarlet," the first novel featuring Sherlock Holmes, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Watson describes the solar system to Holmes, who had no prior knowledge of the subject. After Watson finishes, Holmes tells him he will try to forget the information. He… https://t.co/YrVWn0Lrnt

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Chris Schweizer
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Cartoonist/Writer/KY Colonel/3x Eisner Award nominee. Former college professor, former social studies teacher. History buff, but certainly no expert. He/him

For a long time, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate (not his heirs) dubiously insisted that, because those stories influence the perception and identity of Holmes, any original material featuring Sherlock Holmes (i.e. not adaptations of public domain stories) required their OK. 2/more

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Develop your MindSkills to win in your personal & business life: Critical Thinking—Problem-Solving—Decision-Making—Emotional Intelligence | ⚡️Legacy Account⚡️

In "A Study in Scarlet," the first novel featuring Sherlock Holmes, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Watson describes the solar system to Holmes, who had no prior knowledge of the subject. After Watson finishes, Holmes tells him he will try to forget the information. He… https://t.co/YrVWn0Lrnt

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