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An edition of The Sign of Four (1889)

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As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her. And in the ensuing investigation - which involves a wronged woman, a stolen hoard of Indian treasure, a wooden-legged ruffian, a helpful dog and a love affair - even the jaded Holmes is moved to exclaim, 'Isn't it gorgeous!'
--back cover

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Penguin Books
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English
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128

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Subjects

Crime & Mystery, classic fiction, Andamanese, arrow poisons, bloguns, convicts, crime & mystery fiction, crocodiles, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Fiction Classics, Indian Rebellion of 1857, launches, Literary Fiction, Mystery & Suspense, Mystery fiction, novel, private investigators, substance abuse, tea plantations, treasure, waylaying, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), fiction, England, fiction, Watson, john h. (fictitious character), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, crime, Texts, Shorthand, English Detective and mystery stories, Novelas inglesas, Children's fiction, Mystery and detective stories, English literature, John H. Watson (Fictitious character), Large type books, Sherlock Holmes (Fictitious character), Detectives privados, Novela, English language, textbooks for foreign speakers, Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Private investigators -- England -- Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Translations into German, John H Watson, Détectives, Romans, nouvelles, Fiction, action & adventure

People

Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Mary Morstan, John Sholto, Jonathan Small, Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Khan, Dost Akbar, Toby, Tonga, Rajah, Mr. Sherman, Baker Street Irregulars, Bartholomew, Thaddeus Sholto, Captain Morstan, John H. Watson (Fictitious character)

Places

England, Inglaterra, India, Langham Hotel, London, Agra Fort, Buffs, Andaman Islands, Dartmoor Prison, Angleterre

Times

1888, 1857, December 1878, 1882

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1994, Oxford University Press
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The Sign of Four
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1960, Hart Publishing Company
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. xviii).
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Published in
London
Series
Penguin Classics
Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
2001

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PR4622 .S44 2001b, PR4622.S44 2001b

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxiii, 128 p. ;
Number of pages
128

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Open Library
OL3971297M
Internet Archive
signoffour00doyl_0
ISBN 10
0140439072
ISBN 13
9780140439076
LCCN
2001278803
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46602446, 1023257903
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0140439072
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s8lLKSJoYywC
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12418
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123014195

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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.


Also contained in:
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Annotated Sherlock Holmes. 1/2
Best of Sherlock Holmes
Boys' Sherlock Holmes
Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes
Complete Sherlock Holmes
Complete Sherlock Holmes
Illustrated Sherlock Holmes
Original Illustrated Strand Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes: His Most Famous Mysteries
Sherlock Holmes: The Novels
The Sign of the Four, A Scandal in Bohemia and Other Stories
Sign of the Four and Other Stories
Tales of Sherlock Holmes
Tales of Sherlock Holmes
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Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case.
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