The Sign of Four
Arthur Conan Doyle; Shafquat Towheed [Editor]
ISBN 10: 1551118378 ISBN 13: 9781551118376
Published by Broadview Press, 2010
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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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Title: The Sign of Four
Publisher: Broadview Press
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good