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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.
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The Sign of the Four, Arthur Conan Doyle
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- Released
- 2014
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- Title
- The Sign of the Four
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Publisher
- Createspace
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 146
- ISBN13
- 9781631824340
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Classics, Murders, Detective Fiction, England, Detective, Great Britain, English Literature, London, Revenge, Treasures, Sherlock Holmes
- Original title
- The Sign of the Four
- Rating
- 4.5 out of 5
- Description
- 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.