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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
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1551118378
- ISBN 13
- 9781551118376
- Series
- Book 1 of 1: Sherlock (BBC Books)
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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