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The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes (Headline))
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes (Headline))

Headline Review (Dec 18, 2006)
9780755334490
| Paperback
146 pages | 130 x 194 mm | English
Dewey 823

Genre

  • Detective And Mystery Stories

Subject

  • Fiction / Classics
  • Fiction / Literary
  • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
  • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Traditional British

Plot

'Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement'. Whilst the seamy streets of London drown in a sea of smog, Sherlock Holmes sinks into a cocaine-induced melancholy, until Miss Mary Morstan presents him with a most intriguing case. A terrible death, an unknown benefactor, stolen treasure, and a secret pact between criminals stretching back to a mutiny-torn India, lead Holmes into an epic pursuit of the truth...