First published in 1890, The Sign of Four is Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle's second book starring legendary detective Sherlock Holmes.
The story is complex, involving a secret between four ex-cons from
India and a hidden treasure. More complex than the first Holmes
novel, The Sign of Four also introduces the detective's drug habit
and leaves breadcrumbs for the reader that lead toward the final
resolution. Readers are offered an explanation of the mystery from
the killer's perspective, encouraging a sense of sympathy with the
condemned that the previous book also lacked. Any fan of the
mystery genre should consider this book a must-read. Scottish
surgeon and political activist SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930)
turned his passions into stories and novels, producing fiction and
nonfiction works sometimes controversial (The Great Boer War,
1900), sometimes fanciful (The Coming of the Fairies, 1922), and
sometimes legendary (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892).
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