Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 2017-10-16
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ISBN : 9781549982880
Book Description
The sign of the four is the second novel starring Sherlock Holmes, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His title has also been translated as The Sign of the Four. It is (along with Scarlet Studio, Baskerville Hound and Valley of Terror) one of the only four novels that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote with Holmes as the protagonist, since the rest of his works about this character are stories shortThe request of a woman to Sherlock Holmes to accompany her to visit a man and the death of his brother, leads him discover, with Dr. Watson, the secret behind a treasure found in India, an oath among three Indians , a white and a maddening thirst for revenge. In this novel appears the only passage in which is shown to Holmes consuming cocaine, concretely in a dissolution to 7%.ArgumentIn England, at the end of the nineteenth century, After the mysterious disappearance of her father, Mary begins to receive valuable pearls from an unknown sender. After a long silence, the generous character gives signs of life and wants Mary to meet him. The girl asks Sherlock Holmes for help to accompany her. The stranger turns out to be Thaddeus Sholto, the son of a good friend of Mary's father. Thaddeus and his brother have been seeking, for six years, a great treasure that their father hid before he died. Finally, after a great effort, they have found the treasure, which, following the will of their father, must share with Mary. When they arrive at the residence of the Sholto, Thaddeus' brother has been murdered and the treasure stolen.