Sign of the Four or The Problem of the Sholtos

Sherlock Holmes is about to resort to cocaine when Mary Morstan enters his room and presents her case. She has received a precious pearl in the post from an unknown benefactor and a message telling her she is "a wronged woman". The novel is an enduring testament to Arthur Conan Doyle's storytelling genius.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 01 July 2021
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd

Sherlock Holmes, feeling deeply bored by the lack of mental stimulation and the monotonous routine of existence, is on the verge of resorting to his daily dose of cocaine when an elegantly dressed young woman named Mary Morstan enters his room and presents her case to him and Watson.

Following the mysterious disappearance of her father ten years ago, and after answering a newspaper advertisement enquiring for her four years later, she has begun to receive each year, on the same date, a precious pearl in the post from an unknown benefactor. Now, with the last pearl, she has also received a message, telling her she is "a wronged woman" and asking for a meeting that very night outside the Lyceum Theatre. Will the great detective accompany her and help her unravel the mystery?

First published in 1880, The Sign of the Four – the second Sherlock Holmes novel after A Study in Scarlet, published three years earlier – will sweep the readers away into a story of murders, betrayals, double-crossings, and stolen treasures, and is an enduring testament to the storytelling genius of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Weight: 136g
Dimension: 135 x 198 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781847498717