The Sign of the Four (1890), also called the Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock I lolmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine induced harc at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before, Four years later she began to reveive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now the has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her.

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Title: The Sign of Four
Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1551118378
ISBN 13: 9781551118376
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good

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Arthur Conan Doyle’s second Sherlock Holmes novel is both a detective story and an imperial romance. Ostensibly the story of Mary Morstan, a beautiful young woman enlisting the help of Holmes to find her vanished father and solve the mystery of her receipt of a perfect pearl on the same date each year, it gradually uncovers a tale of treachery and human greed. The action audaciously ranges from penal settlements on the Andaman Islands to the suburban comfort of South London, and from the opium-fuelled violence of Agra Fort during the Indian ‘Mutiny’ to the cocaine-induced contemplation of Holmes’ own Baker Street.

This Broadview Edition places Doyle’s tale in the cultural, political, and social contexts of late nineteenth-century colonialism and imperialism. The appendices provide a wealth of relevant extracts from hard-to-find sources, including official reports, memoirs, newspaper editorials, and anthropological studies.

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Shafquat Towheed is a Lecturer in English at the Open University, UK.

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