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An edition of The Sign of Four (1889)

The sign of four

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" ... 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.

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Broadview Press
Language
English
Pages
218

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Crime & Mystery, classic fiction, Andamanese, arrow poisons, bloguns, convicts, crime & mystery fiction, crocodiles, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Fiction Classics, Indian Rebellion of 1857, launches, Literary Fiction, Mystery & Suspense, Mystery fiction, novel, private investigators, substance abuse, tea plantations, treasure, waylaying, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, England, fiction, Watson, john h. (fictitious character), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, crime, Texts, Shorthand, English Detective and mystery stories, Novelas inglesas, Children's fiction, Mystery and detective stories, English literature, John H. Watson (Fictitious character), Large type books, Sherlock Holmes (Fictitious character), Detectives privados, Novela, English language, textbooks for foreign speakers, Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Private investigators -- England -- Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Translations into German, John H Watson, Détectives, Romans, nouvelles, Fiction, action & adventure, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Juvenile fiction, Detectives

People

Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Mary Morstan, John Sholto, Jonathan Small, Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Khan, Dost Akbar, Toby, Tonga, Rajah, Mr. Sherman, Baker Street Irregulars, Bartholomew, Thaddeus Sholto, Captain Morstan, John H. Watson (Fictitious character)

Places

England, Inglaterra, India, Langham Hotel, London, Agra Fort, Buffs, Andaman Islands, Dartmoor Prison, Angleterre

Times

1888, 1857, December 1878, 1882

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Das Zeichen der Vier
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2008, Barbera
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The Sign of the Four
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El signo de los cuatro
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Le signe des quatre
2004-01-01, Ebooks libres et gratuits
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The Sign of Four
2001, Broadview Press
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The Sign of the Four
2000-03, Project Gutenberg
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The Sign of the Four
1994, Book of the Month Club
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The Sign of the Four
1994, Oxford University Press
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Sherlock Holmes: Das Zeichen der Vier
1983, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung
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The Sign of Four
1966, John Murray
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The Sign of the Four
1960, Hart Publishing Company
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218).

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Peterborough, Ont
Series
Broadview editions

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PR4622 .S44 2010, PR4622.S44 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
218 p.
Number of pages
218

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL30490602M
ISBN 10
1551118378
ISBN 13
9781551118376
LCCN
2010502814
OCLC/WorldCat
471809758

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL262438W

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Work Description

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.


Also contained in:
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Annotated Sherlock Holmes. 1/2
Best of Sherlock Holmes
Boys' Sherlock Holmes
Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes
Complete Sherlock Holmes
Complete Sherlock Holmes
Illustrated Sherlock Holmes
Original Illustrated Strand Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes: His Most Famous Mysteries
Sherlock Holmes: The Novels
The Sign of the Four, A Scandal in Bohemia and Other Stories
Sign of the Four and Other Stories
Tales of Sherlock Holmes
Tales of Sherlock Holmes
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Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case.
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