The Sign Of The Four
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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 short stories featuring the fictional detective.
Set in 1888, The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Mutiny of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents Holmes'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 Dr. Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan. (Excerpted from The Sign of the Four on Wikipedia.)
Set in 1888, The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Mutiny of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents Holmes'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 Dr. Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan. (Excerpted from The Sign of the Four on Wikipedia.)
Books in the series:
- A Study in Scarlet
- The Sign of the Four
- The adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- The Return Of Sherlock Holmes
- The Valley of Fear.
| Author | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Genre | Crime, Detective and mystery stories |
| Copyright | Public domain in the United States. |
| Book cover | Thanks to Canva |
| Ebooks | Project Gutenberg |
| Scans | Google-digitized |
| Audio | Thanks to Librivox | Internet Archive: Reader: Group, Dramatic Readings 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 |
| Read online | Outdated. Please read new version of the book HERE |