The Sign of Four

Paperback, 195 pages

English language

Published Aug. 7, 2011 by Ulverscroft.

ISBN:
978-1-4448-0698-4
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OCLC Number:
704379737

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In London a dense, yellow fog swirls through the streets. At 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes sits in a cocaine-induced haze, deeply melancholic. His mood lifts when a young woman, Mary Morstan, visits regarding her father who had vanished ten years before. Four years later she began receiving a large, lustrous pearl every year. Now she has had an invitation to meet her unknown benefactor. She asks Holmes and Watson to accompany her, little knowing that 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... --back cover

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Subjects

  • Private investigators
  • Fiction

Places

  • England