{"product_id":"2940148232865","title":"The Sign of the Four (Illustrated)","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company and the Indian Rebellion of 1857. 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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGo BompaCrazy!\u003cbr\u003eConan Doyle was a fervent advocate of justice and personally investigated two closed cases, which led to two men being exonerated of the crimes of which they were accused. The first case, in 1906, involved a shy half-British, half-Indian lawyer named George Edalji who had allegedly penned threatening letters and mutilated animals. Police were set on Edalji's conviction, even though the mutilations continued after their suspect was jailed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second case, that of Oscar Slater, a German Jew and gambling-den operator convicted of bludgeoning an 82-year-old woman in Glasgow in 1908, excited Conan Doyle's curiosity because of inconsistencies in the prosecution case and a general sense that Slater was not guilty. He ended up paying most of the costs for Slater's successful appeal in 1928.","brand":"BompaCrazy.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078875070704,"sku":"2940148232865","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148232865_p0.jpg?v=1763699263","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148232865","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}