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Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir; Towheed, Shafquat (EDT)
Language: English
Published by Broadview Press, 2010
- Softcover
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- Title
- Sign of Four
- Author
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir; Towheed, Shafquat (EDT)
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- 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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About the Author
Shafquat Towheed is a Lecturer in English at the Open University, UK.
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