It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). In his Sherlock Holmes stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle establishes the conventions of the modern detective novel, in which a rational and intellectual central character investigates and ultimately solves a mystery. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, 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. The Sign of Four is a detective story, written and set in late Victorian times. The film is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s 1890 novel of the same name, the second novel to feature Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle 3.6 (44) Paperback 15.95 Hardcover 22.95 Paperback 15.95 eBook 9.49 Audiobook 0.00 Audio MP3 on CD 9.99 Audio CD 14. Sir Arthur Conan Doyles The Sign of Four 1) is a 1983 British made-for-television mystery film directed by Desmond Davis and starring Ian Richardson and David Healy. 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. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Sign of The Four (version 3)

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