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.
I could hardly keep from smiling at his crestfallen face when he finally snapped the case to and handed it back. I had opened my mouth to reply to this tirade, when with a crisp knock our landlady entered, bearing a card upon the brass salver.

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed? In a police steam launch Holmes and Watson chase the Aurora and capture it, but in the process end up killing the "small" companion after he attempts to kill Holmes with a poisoned dart shot from a blow-pipe. “Some facts should be suppressed, or at least a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. He traces them to a boat landing where Small has hired a steam launch named the Aurora. Holmes takes the case and soon discovers that Major Sholto had died in 1882 and that within a short span of time Mary began to receive the pearls, implying a connection. “I suppose that its influence is physically a bad one. When you observe the lower part of that watch-case you notice that it is not only dinted in two places, but it is cut and marked all over from the habit of keeping other hard objects, such as coins or keys, in the same pocket. Here, too, is a curious little work upon the influence of a trade upon the form of the hand, with lithotypes of the hands of slaters, sailors, corkcutters, compositors, weavers, and diamond-polishers. To the trained eye there is as much difference between the black ash of a Trichinopoly and the white fluff of bird’s-eye as there is between a cabbage and a potato.”
Chapter One “It is as clear as daylight,” I answered. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks.

Small arrived too late to hear of the treasure's location, but left the note which referred to the name of the pact between himself and his three Sikh accomplices. He shook his head sadly. Here is my monograph upon the tracing of footsteps, with some remarks upon the uses of plaster of Paris as a preserver of impresses. He is only wanting in knowledge; and that may come in time. Also contained in: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Annotated Sherlock Holmes. “My practice has extended recently to the Continent,” said Holmes, after a while, filling up his old brier-root pipe. It is unkind, and, to speak plainly, has a touch of charlatanism in it.” Would you have the kindness to let me have an opinion upon the character or habits of the late owner?” I nodded, to show that I followed his reasoning.

“But consider!” I said, earnestly. “It is cocaine,” he said,—“a seven-per-cent. It is more handy than a label, as there is no risk of the number being lost or transposed. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described how he was commissioned to write the story over a dinner with Joseph M. Stoddart, managing editor of an American publication Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, at the Langham Hotel in London on 30 August 1889. He winds it at night, and he leaves these traces of his unsteady hand. Would you care to try it?” “It is simplicity itself,” he remarked, chuckling at my surprise,—“so absurdly simple that an explanation is superfluous; and yet it may serve to define the limits of observation and of deduction. It was a sudden impulse upon my part, and I have mentioned it to no one.” “A young lady for you, sir,” she said, addressing my companion. I was annoyed at this criticism of a work which had been specially designed to please him. before falling back and dying. “The only unofficial detective?” I said, raising my eyebrows. 17). Small confesses that years before he was a soldier of the Third Buffs in India and lost his right leg to a crocodile while bathing in the Ganges.



What seems strange to you is only so because you do not follow my train of thought or observe the small facts upon which large inferences may depend. Release Date February 1, 1890. “That you gather, no doubt, from the H. W. upon the back?” The robbery and murder took place and the crime was discovered, although the jewels were not. “My dear doctor,” said he, kindly, “pray accept my apologies. But I weary you with my hobby.” After twenty years, Small overheard that Major Sholto had lost much money gambling and couldn't even sell his commission, necessitating his resignation. “Quite so. There are no less than four such numbers visible to my lens on the inside of this case. The novel first appeared in the February 1890 edition of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine[3] as The Sign of the Four; or The Problem of the Sholtos (five-word title), appearing in both London and Philadelphia. “In this case it certainly is so,” I replied, after a little thought. However, the iron treasure box is empty; Small claims to have dumped the treasure over the side during the chase. Original Illustrated Strand Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four, A Scandal in Bohemia and Other Stories, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), fiction, Watson, john h. (fictitious character), fiction, El signo de los cuatro= The sign of the four, Sign of the Four [EasyRead Large Edition], The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes (Headline)), El Signo De Los Cuatro / The Sign Of Four, The Sign of Four (The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library), The Sign of Four [Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection #2], El signo de los cuatro / The Sign of Four, 1890, The Sign Of Four (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection), The Sign of Four: Broadview Reprint Edition, Si ge ren de qian ming =: The sign of four, The Sign of the Four: The Oxford Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics).

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