The Sign of the Four

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>First published in 1890 the second of Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Sign of the Four</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a classic of detective fiction and a forerunner of this now-ubiquitous genre. The story has everything - a beautiful damsel in distress mysterious disappearances a murder a strange and lustrous pearl a peculiar map four desperate villains an exotic treasure and above it all smiling superiorly as he moves with sure-footed confidence through the puzzling morass of conflicting clues the inimitable Sherlock Holmes investigator</span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> extraordinaire</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This edition comes complete with the original 24 pen-and-ink illustrations by Richard Gutschmidt.</span></p>