About the Book
The Sign of the Four
The Sign of the Four (1890) is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective. The story is 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. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in A Study in Scarlet. It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.
This book contains twelve stories as given below:
1. 1. The Science of Deduction
2. 2. The Statement of the Case
3. 3. In Quest of a Solution
4. 4. The Story of the Bald-Headed Man
5. 5. The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge
6. 6. Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration
7. 7. The Episode of the Barrel
8. 8. The Baker Street Irregulars
9. 9. A Break in the Chain
10. 10. The End of the Islander
11. 11. The Great Agra Treasure
12. 12. The Strange Story of Jonathan Small
