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  • Published: 22 October 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141395487
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $24.99

The Sign of Four





The lurid, sinister and claustrophobic second Sherlock Holmes novel

A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation.

For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman. If she would seek justice she is to meet her unknown benefactor, bringing with her two companions.

But unbeknownst to them all, others stalk London's fog-enshrouded streets: a one-legged ruffian with revenge on his mind - and his companion, who places no value on human life . . .

  • Published: 22 October 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141395487
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $24.99

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Persuasion
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
On Sparta
Love
Annals
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About the author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student. Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887).

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