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The Sign of the Four - Premium Edition
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Isabella Howell
Publisher: Audioliterature
Summary
The Sign of the Four (1890) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes. Doyle wrote 4 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 East India Company, 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. It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.
Duration: about 4 hours (04:12:19) Publishing date: 2019-02-28; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2019. Copyright Statment: —
