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Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four

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The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 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 the preceding novel A Study in Scarlet. It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan. In 1888 a client, Mary Morstan, comes with two puzzles for Holmes. The first is the disappearance of her father, British Indian Army Captain Arthur Morstan in December 1878. According to Mary, her father had telegraphed her upon his safe return from India and requested her to meet him at the Langham Hotel in London. When Mary arrived at the hotel, she was told her father had gone out the previous night and not returned. Despite all efforts, no trace has ever been found of him. Mary contacted her father's only friend who was in the same regiment and had since retired to England, one Major Sholto, but he denied knowing her father had returned. The second puzzle is that she has received 6 pearls in the mail from an anonymous benefactor once a year since 1882 after answering an anonymous newspaper query inquiring for her. With the last pearl she has received a letter remarking that she has been a wronged woman and asking for a meeting. Holmes takes the case and soon discovers that Major Sholto had died in 1882 and that within a short span of time Mary began to receive the pearls, implying a connection. The only clue Mary can give Holmes is a map of a fortress found in her father's desk with the names of Jonathan Small and three Sikhs named Dost Akbar, Abdullah Khan, and Mahomet Singh. [more]

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Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of the Four

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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. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction. [more]

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Bertram Mitford The Sign of the Spider

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Bertram Mitford Writer Bertram Mitford was a colonial writer, novelist, essayist and cultural critic who wrote forty-four books, most of which are set in South Africa. He was a contemporary of H Rider Haggard. Wikipedia Born: June 13, 1855 Died: October 4, 1914 Education: Hurstpierpoint College Books View 25+ The Sign of the Spider (1896) The Sign of the Spider 1896 A Frontier Mystery (1905) A Frontier Mystery 1905 The white hand and the black (1907) The white hand and the black [more]

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of the Four (Illustrated)

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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. 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 the preceding novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan. [more]

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William Le Queux The Sign of Silence

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William Le Queux Journalist William Tufnell Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat, a traveller, a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless ... Wikipedia Born: July 2, 1864, London, United Kingdom Died: October 13, 1927, Knokke, Belgium Books View 45+ The Great War in England in 1897 The Great War in England i... The House of Whispers (1909) The House of Whispers 1909 The Count's Chauffeur (1907) [more]

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Lord Jesus The Word of God about the sign of the Son of Man

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„You should not be from the earth, for the mystery that comprises you is great. You are the [more]

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of the Four

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Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of the Four

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Arthur Conan Doyle Physician Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KGStJ, DL was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Wikipedia Born: May 22, 1859, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Died: July 7, 1930, Crowborough, United Kingdom Full name: Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle Plays: Sherlock Holmes Spouse: Jean Leckie (m. 1907–1930), Louisa Hawkins (m. 1885–1906) [more]

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Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of the Four

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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and [more]

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