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...
A nice edition with original first edition cover and 13 original illustrations. The Sign of Four was first released to magazines in 1890. It was later published in book format and is also known by the title The Sign of the Four. It is the second Sherlock...
The Sign of the Four is the second Sherlock Holmes book. Its complex plot involves service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts and two corrupt prison guards. It presents Sherlock...
Arthur Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes novel is both a detective story and an imperial romance. Ostensibly the story of Mary Morstan, a beautiful young woman enlisting the help of Holmes to find her vanished father and solve the mystery of her receipt of a perfect pearl...
The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle's wonderful tales of the inimitable "consulting detective" at work. Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover's shelf and...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second novel featuring the inimitable Sherlock Holmes.
'I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.' Mary Morstan receives a large pearl through the post once a year without any clue as to the sender. When...
Sherlock Holmes is bored, which is seldom a good thing. His mood is lifted when a young woman visits him, seeking his help. Four years after the disappearance of her father, she has begun to receive expensive gifts from an unknown benefactor. After six years, he requests a meeting...
The Sign of the Four first appeared in the February 1890 edition of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine and was published in book form later that year. The second novel featuring the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion, Dr. John Watson, the story is celebrated for its...
"Holmes and Watson accompany a woman on a quest which leads them through the dark heart of London to a one-legged man, a mysterious and terrifying creature, and an incredible tale of greed and revenge."-School Library Journal "The immense talent, passion and literary...
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson set out to solve the mystery of a telegram, received by Mary Morstan, apparently form her father and informing her of his return to London from India. As Mary reaches the hotel he was staying in, she finds her father missing.Adding to the mystery,...
Originally published: London: SelfMadeHero, 2010.
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. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective. PLOT: The story is set in 1888.The Sign of the Four has a complex...
Uno de los grandes cl?sicos de la literatura de misterio, en una nueva edici?n adaptada que incluye ilustraciones de Pilar Hern?ndez. Sherlock Holmes y el doctor Watson reciben una intrigante visita: se trata de la joven Mary Morstan, que les pide que investiguen...
The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle's wonderful tales of the inimitable "consulting detective" at work. Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover's shelf and...
El signo de los cuatro es la segunda novela protagonizada por Sherlock Holmes, escrita por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Su t tulo tambi n se ha traducido como La se al de los cuatro. Se trata de una de las cuatro nicas novelas que Arthur Conan Doyle escribi con Holmes como protagonista,...
'Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement'.