The sign of four
By: Arthur Conan Doyle ; edited by Shafquat Towheed
Contributors: Towheed, Shafquat, 1973-
Series: Broadview editions
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Peterborough, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781551118376
Subjects: Private investigators; Fiction
Description: " ... A detective story and an imperial romance. Ostensibly the story of Mary Morstan, a beautiful young woman enlisting the help of Holmes to find her vanished father and solve the mystery of her receipt of a perfect pearl on the same date each year, it gradually uncovers a tale of treachery and human greed. The action audaciously ranges from penal settlements on the Andaman Islands to the suburban comfort of South London, and from the opium-fuelled violence of Agra Fort during the Indian 'Mutiny' to the cocaine-induced contemplation of Holmes' own Baker Street. This Broadview Edition places Doyle's tale in the cultural, political, and social contexts of late nineteenth-century colonialism and imperialism. The appendices provide a wealth of relevant extracts from hard-to-find sources, including official reports, memoirs, newspaper editorials, and anthropological studies"--Pub. website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218).