Arthur Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes novel is both 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.
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