The Sign of The Four [With ATOC]

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.
The story is set in 1887. 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. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in A Study in Scarlet. It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.



CONTENTS


The Science of Deduction

The Statement of the Case

In Quest of a Solution

The Story of the Bald-Headed Man

The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge

Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration

The Episode of the Barrel

The Baker Street Irregulars

A Break in the Chain

The End of the Islander

The Great Agra Treasure

The Strange Story of Jonathan Small