The Sign of the Four
The Sign of the Four is the second novel to feature Sherlock Holmes, published in 1890, and one of the richest of Arthur Conan Doyle’s early cases. A young woman, Mary Morstan, comes to Baker Street with a strange story: since her father vanished she has received a single priceless pearl every year from an unknown sender, and now a note asks her to meet him. Holmes and Watson are drawn into a tangled affair of a stolen Indian treasure, a broken oath among four convicts, and a murder in a locked room, pursued at last down the Thames in one of the great chase scenes of detective fiction. It is also the story in which Watson meets his future wife. This free PDF and EPUB offers the complete novel.
About the Author
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born in 1859 in Edinburgh into an Irish-Catholic family that was both artistically gifted and chronically unstable. His father was an alcoholic artist who eventually had to be institutionalized. His mother, by all accounts, was the steady center of his…
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