by Arthur Conan Doyle · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140439076
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«The Sign of Four» is the mystery novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (160 pages, in English).
In a fog-bound London, Mary Morstan asks Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for help: her father disappeared ten years ago, and since then she has received a pearl each year from an anonymous benefactor. An invitation to meet that benefactor leads the trio to a treasure stolen in India and an old grudge.
The work is the second novel in the Sherlock Holmes series, originally published in 1890 under the title The Sign of the Four.
For readers of classic detective fiction and Sherlock Holmes fans who want the novel in its original language.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, which are milestones in crime fiction, and for his first work featuring Professor Challenger, The Lost World (1912), which gave its name to a subgenre of speculative fiction. He was a prolific writer who produced over 200 stories and articles, four volumes of poetry, and a number of works for the stage. He was knighted by King Edward VII in the 1902 Coronation Honours.
