The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle Reviews
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Newest Review: ... novel is the first to really show the Holmes the casual reader knows, here the author seeks to humanise Holmes after the ... more
... rather cold sterility of the Study in Scarlett, we are introduced to his cocaine habit and Watsons first wife. However there are many similarities in that unlike later short stories and novels there is a lengthy section not narrated by Watson but by the killer himself justifying his actions.
the story is a complex one because most of the serious drama takes place out of camera shot so to speak in colonial India a decade or so in the past. The Sign of Four is a group of 4 hardened group of men fighting in India and i...more
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The sign of four is a novel written by Arthur Conan-Doyle about his famous detective Sherlock Holmes. This was the second novel written by Doyle after a Study in Scarlett and shows changes in how he wrote about Holmes. In this novel, we have classic holmes in that the events depicted are in the present but the reasons are set in the near past, as with many holmes stories there is a link to the British Empire and here the link is India. So whats it all about? This Holmes novel is the first to really show the Holmes the casual reader knows, here the author seeks to humanise Holmes after the rather cold sterility of the Study in Scarlett, ... Read the complete review
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