The Sign of the Four E-Book

Arthur Conan Doyle

• Herausgeber: Arcadia Press
• Kategorie: Krimi
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

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).

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

The Book

The Author

Title

Copyright

The Sign of Four

1 - The Science of Deduction

2 - The Statement of the Case

3 - In Quest of a Solution

4 - The Story of the Bald-Headed Man

5 - The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge

6 - Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration

7 - The Episode of the Barrel

8 - The Baker Street Irregulars

9 - A Break in the Chain

10 - The End of the Islander

11 - The Great Agra Treasure

12 - The Strange Story of Jonathan Small

The Book

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).