The Sign of the 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 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). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future...
The Sign of the Four is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring ...
The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The novel starts with Sherlock Holmes receiving a cipher message from Fred Porlock (pseudonym), an agent of Professor Moriarty. After Porlock sends the message, however, he changes his mind for fear of Moriarty's discovering that he is a traitor. He decides not to send the key to the cipher, but he sends Holmes a note telling of this decision. From the cipher message and the second note, Holmes is able to deduce that it is a...
The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton ag...
His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. All editions contain a brief preface, by -John H. Watson, M.D.-, that assures readers that as of the date of publication (1917), Holmes is long retired from his profession of detective but is still alive and well, albeit suffering from a touch of rheumatism.
His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. All edition...
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Its opening pages, where Holmes emulates Dupin, were transferred to the beginning of -The Adventure of the Resident Patient-. In some later U.S. editions of the Memoirs, which still omit -The Adventure of the Cardboard Box-, this transfer still appears. Doyle had decided that these would be the last collection of Holmes's stories and initially decided to get him killed in -The Final Problem-. However public pressure forced him to write the character again in -The...
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Its opening pages, whe...
British Mystery Multipack 13 is a mystery lover's treat. Six of the finest mystery novellas written by masters of the genre. Included in this anthology:
The Aspern Papers by Henry James.
The Case of Lady Sannox by Arthur Conan Doyle.
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce.
The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant.
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe.
The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson.
British Mystery Multipack 13 is a mystery lover's treat. Six of the finest mystery novellas written by masters of the genre. Included in this a...
