The Sign of the Four [eBook]

Several years after the mysterious disappearance of her father, Mary Morstan discovers an advertisement in a local paper requesting her own address. Her employer advises her to reveal it, and when she does she receives a valuable pearl by post.

Presented with these facts and little else, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must unravel a mystery involving stolen treasure, political rebellion, India, and a pact made by four convicts, in Arthur Conan Doyle’s second Sherlock Holmes novel.

Review

Of all the Holmes stories it is The Sign of Four which remains persistently in my memory. -- Graham Greene

Sherlock Holmes is the very foundation stone of the edifice that is crime fiction. -- Times

[Holmes] is probably the only literary creation since the creations of Dickens which has really passed into the life and language of the people. -- G. K. Chesterton

About the Author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KGStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) 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.

He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.