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Fiction · 1890

The Sign of the Four

Arthur Conan Doyle

Reading time
about 3 h
Length
43,145 words · 98 pages in print
Structure
12 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

A young governess, Mary Morstan, brings Sherlock Holmes a problem: her father vanished ten years ago, and for six years someone has been sending her a pearl on the same day each year. The case leads to a treasure from India, a pact between four convicts, and a chase down the Thames by steam launch.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s second Holmes novel appeared in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. It is also the book in which Watson meets his future wife.

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Contents

  1. Chapter I — The Science of Deduction
  2. Chapter II — The Statement of the Case
  3. Chapter III — In Quest of a Solution
  4. Chapter IV — The Story of the Bald-Headed Man
  5. Chapter V — The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge
  6. Chapter VI — Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration
  7. Chapter VII — The Episode of the Barrel
  8. Chapter VIII — The Baker Street Irregulars
  9. Chapter IX — A Break in the Chain
  10. Chapter X — The End of the Islander
  11. Chapter XI — The Great Agra Treasure
  12. Chapter XII — The Strange Story of Jonathan Small

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Arthur Conan Doyle

1859–1930 · Victorian

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