num_pages: 100
description: "The Sign of the Four" is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's follow-up to his immensely successful "A Study in Scarlet", where we first meet one of the most famous literary detectives of all time, Sherlock Holmes. "The Sign of the Four" is the mystery surrounding the disappearance Miss Mary Morstan's father. Every year on the anniversary of Miss Morstan's father's disappearance, Mary receives an anonymous gift of a priceless pearl. Miss Morstan solicits the help of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to unravel the identity and motive of her anonymous benefactor.
language: English
title: The Sign of the Four
titlecomplete: The Sign of the Four
characters: Sherlock Holmes, Mary Morstan, Athelney Jones, Dr. John Watson
genres: Classics, Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Historical Fiction, 19th Century, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 150145
series: Sherlock Holmes
publisher: Digireads.Com