The Sign of Four
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Sherlock Holmes
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leicester [England]
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781444806984
Subjects: Private investigators; Fiction
Other titles: The Sign of the Four
Description: In London a dense, yellow fog swirls through the streets. At 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes sits in a cocaine-induced haze, deeply melancholic. His mood lifts when a young woman, Mary Morstan, visits regarding her father who had vanished ten years before. Four years later she began receiving a large, lustrous pearl every year. Now she has had an invitation to meet her unknown benefactor. She asks Holmes and Watson to accompany her, little knowing that others stalk London's fog-enshrouded streets: a one-legged ruffian with revenge on his mind, and his companion who places no value on human life...
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