The Sign of the Four
Fiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Findaway Voices, 2024
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Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 27 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9798882210440 MWT17516716, 17516716
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by David Clarke
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. 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 (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan
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