Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1693773880
The Sign of Four Annotated by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf
The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective.The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in 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 the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.