Name: The Sign of Four (Wisehouse Classics Edition - with original illustrations by Richard Gutschmidt)
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Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan ; Gutschmidt, Richard ; Vaseghi, Sam
ISBN: 9789176372500

portada The Sign of Four (Wisehouse Classics Edition - with original illustrations by Richard Gutschmidt)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher

Wisehouse Classics

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9789176372500

Synopsis "The Sign of Four (Wisehouse Classics Edition - with original illustrations by Richard Gutschmidt)"

THE SIGN OF FOUR is 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 1888. The SIGN OF THE 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 preceding novel, A STUDY IN SCARLET (1887). In 1888 a client, Mary Morstan, comes with two puzzles for Holmes. The first is the disappearance of her father, British Indian Army Captain Arthur Morstan, in December 1878. The second puzzle is that she has received six pearls in the mail from an anonymous benefactor, one per year since 1882 after answering an anonymous newspaper query inquiring for her. With the last pearl she received a letter remarking that she has been a wronged woman and asking for a meeting (more on www.wisehouse-classics.com)

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (UK 1859-1930) Escritor y médico nacido en Escocia, principalmente conocido por haber creado al famosísimo personaje Sherlock Holmes, el detective más conocido de todos los tiempos, versionado para TV y cine de forma cíclica. Otra gran serie de novelas confeccionadas por Doyle fueron las protagonizadas por el profesor Challenger (El Mundo Perdido), también trasladadas a la ficción audiovisual.

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