The Sign of the Four: Original and Unabridged

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Overview

This is the original and unabridged edition of The Sign of Four the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Set in 1888, The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. We learn of the detective's drug habit and the novel humanizes him in a way not done in the preceding novel A Study in Scarlet. We also meet Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781499763676
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/11/2014
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

A prolific author of books, short stories, poetry, and more, the Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best known for the creation of one of literature’s most vivid and enduring characters: Sherlock Holmes. Through detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction, Holmes and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step into the swirling fog of Victorian London to rescue the innocent, confound the guilty, and solve the most perplexing puzzles known to literature.

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1859

Date of Death:

July 7, 1930

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Crowborough, Sussex, England

Education:

Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885