The Sign of Four

Conan Doyle, Arthur

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ISBN 10: 1551118378 ISBN 13: 9781551118376

Published by Broadview Editions, Toronto, 2010

Language: English

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Title

The Sign of Four

Publisher

Broadview Editions, Toronto

Publication Date

2010

Language

English

ISBN 10

1551118378

ISBN 13

9781551118376

Binding

Paperback

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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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