Sherlock Holmes (2) - The Sign of the Four (Annotated‪)‬

Mary received a strange invitation letter and a pearl every year, so she came to her door to ask
Holmes to assist in the investigation. Holmes felt that there was indeed something strange in
the matter, and together with Watson took the initiative to accompany Mary to accept the
appointment. The inviter was a gentleman who called himself Thaddeus Sholto. Mr. Thaddeus
Sholto’s father was a colleague of Mary’s father, Captain Morstein. The death of Mary’s father
was actually inseparable from the old Sholto. So Thaddeus hopes to compensate Mary.
Thaddeus’s brother Bartholomew discovered the treasure left by his old father, so Thaddeus
decided to share part of the property with Mary, but when Thaddeus went to his brother
Bartholomew’s house, he found that Bartholomew was dead.
Who killed him?
They then discovered there was a big secret and old story behind this…
The second volume of Sherlock Holmes Series, famous mystery and detective novel.
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer
and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the
first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock
Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
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