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Title	:	The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes #2)
Author	:	Arthur Conan Doyle
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Penguin Classics (UK/CAN/USA)
Pages	:	Pages: 129 pages
Published	:	July 5th 2001 by Penguin Books (first published February 1890)
Categories	:	Classics. Mystery. Fiction. Crime

The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes #2)

Arthur Conan Doyle

Paperback | Pages: 129 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 97178 Users | 4370 Reviews

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As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her. And in the ensuing investigation - which involves a wronged woman, a stolen hoard of Indian treasure, a wooden-legged ruffian, a helpful dog and a love affair - even the jaded Holmes is moved to exclaim, 'Isn't it gorgeous!' --back cover

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Original Title:	The Sign of the Four
ISBN:	0140439072 (ISBN13: 9780140439076)
Edition Language:	English URL https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-sign-of-four-9780140439076
Series:	Sherlock Holmes #2
Characters:	Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Athelney Jones, Mary Morstan

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Probably the best part of this book is that it begins and ends with Holmes shooting up cocaine because he's bored. I mean, that's just so damn dark, especially when A Study in Scarlet wasn't very dark at all.Probably the worst part is struggling through all the rampant racism, which isn't nearly as funny as the rampant anti-Mormonism was in aSiS. The peg-leg jewel thief Jonathan Small (awesome) is assisted by a cannibal pygmy named Tonga (also awesome, but also horribly awful). I had to put it

Book two in which Sherlock adds cocaine addiction to his list of proclivities. It seems the cases are few and far between, and his mind rebels at stagnation. He abhors the dull routine of day to day living and requires some sort of mental stimulation. Dr. Watson, while highly annoyed, is still much too reserved to ever dare to take liberties. Watson tries to engage Holmes with a discussion of the pamphlet hes written about their first case, A Study in Scarlet. But Holmes promptly dismisses it

2.5 Why Did This Take Me Three Months To Read?? StarsVerdict: IT CRUNCHES! It crunches sooooooo bad!!It almost never bodes well when a book that is this short takes me this long to read (The one exception is Donna Tartts Secret History which took me half a lifetime over a year to finish). And while I cant say I dislike Doyles writing overall this short novel does basically nothing for me. Incidentally, the instalove is STRONG with this one! Watson falls madly, deeply, entirely in love with Mary

(A-) 82% | Very GoodNotes: Better structured, with more character depth than its predecessor, but it feels like a short story padded into a novella.

Despite being a huge crime/mystery reader, Ive never been a big fan of the Sherlock Holmes stories. After recently reading A Study in Scarlet and now The Sign of Four, I realize that its not me to blame. Its Holmes. Hes just too much of an obnoxious show-off for me to like. Add in some Victorian-era English arrogance, and I feel like flipping off any Holmes novel I see on the shelf when browsing a mystery section in a bookstore.Holmes and his full-time professional kiss-ass Watson get hired by a

Tsk, Tsk, Tsk...apparently thats NOT tobacco Sherlock Holmes is smoking. You have to love the daring Sir Arthur displayed in this novel vis-à-vis his iconic detective. How many writers would have the chutzpah to risk tarnishing the mystique of their signature creation by depicting him shooting cocaine as a cure for boredom? Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted

Well alrighty then. Sherlock and Watson on the case again! I didn't really think that this case was all that interesting. I had hoped, in the beginning, that it would be a missing person case, but it quickly turned into a jewel heist case, and a pretty boring one at that. AND SO WORDY! I do like Sherlock himself, condescending though he may be at times, and Watson... but then Watson had to go and ruin it by instaloving the first girl who talks to him. *sigh* Anyway, I do want to continue this