The Sign of the Four
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Publisher Description
The Sign of the Four (1890) (also called The Sign of
Four) was the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional
detective.
The story is set in 1887 or 1888. The Sign of Four has a complex plot
involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a
stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title)
and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and
humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the first novel, A Study in
Scarlet. It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.
-- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Adaptations of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adventures have been mounted in virtually every medium short of nude interpretive dance and have varied widely in quality, but this version of the second Holmes novel is outstanding. Reuniting the creative team that previously adapted The Hound of the Baskervilles and A Study in Scarlet, this volume features all of the hallmarks of the original prose. and the visual translation is rich with Victorian period atmosphere. Culbard's animation background is evident in the clean and deceptively simple artwork. The adaptation also does justice to the complicated plot involving a secret born during the Indian Rebellion in 1857.The narrative is also notable in the Holmes oeuvre for featuring Watson confronting Holmes about the detective's cocaine habit (which Holmes claims keeps his mind sharp when his daily life becomes a bore), and the introduction of Mary Morstan, a client who comes to mean a great deal to Dr. Watson. A real treat in every way.
