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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9781420925647
ISBN number: 1420925644
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Page Count: 100
Printing Date: January 01, 2005
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'The Sign of the Four' is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's follow-up to his immensely successful 'A Study in Scarlet', where we very first meet one of the most famous literary detectives of all time, Sherlock Holmes. 'The Sign of the Four' is the mystery surrounding the disappearance Miss Mary Morstan's father. Every year on the anniversary of Miss Morstan's father's disappearance, Mary receives an anonymous gift of a priceless pearl. Miss Morstan solicits the help of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to unravel the identity and motive of her anonymous benefactor.
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The problem with literature that has been around so long is that any copyrights have expired so virtually anyone can republish it. It's hard to ruin a Sherlock Holmes classic but this book just might do it because it is littered with typos. It really cheapens the experience. Buyer beware, this re-publication is cheap but you get what you pay for.
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Perhaps my least favorite of the longer Holmes works, at least the last time I read it, causing it to slip below the magic number. To be revisited at some stage. This in no way means it is bad, just not as beloved, or perhaps as brilliant as the others. You still can't go wrong with Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
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The weight of the two men splintered the door into thousands of pieces. Inside lay the dead body, ghostly white in the pale moonlight. In this story a young lady named Mary Morstan comes to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to help he solve a mystery. She had been receiving letters with pearls in side them every year for the past six years. They go with her to a man's house where he tells them of a treasure that she should rightly inherit from her dead father. When they go to a different where the treasure was they find a man killed and the treasure gone. Holmes goes on a chase to retrieve the treasure which they find the empty box that it was in. This book is good because it is suspenseful.
The way that the characters act is good because it adds to the suspense of the story. The book doesn't explain about what Sherlock Holmes is doing when he left. You keep on reading about Watson until Homes returns. Later, when they are racing to keep up with the other boat they have delays. They will get so close to catching them, and then have to swerve to get out of the way of a barge the gets between them. The author uses these things to keep readers interested throughout the book.
The way that the crime occurred in this book was so complex that Holmes almost didn't catch the person. The last chapter of the book was the longest and the whole chapter was about Jonathan Small explaining how he did it and what his reasons were. The main part of the story didn't explain what the great Agra Treasure was and where it came from. First Jonathan escaped with Tonga's help in his little boat. They came and took the treasure and hid in the docks to try to hide the boat for their escape. Then they were caught but, Jonathan had time to throw the treasure all over the river.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle makes all of his descriptions of people and scenes vivid. When they see the dead man he describes his face as pale as the moonlight on a cold winter's eve. He uses similes and metaphors well in good places to help describe important things. Different places like the dock and the city make me visualize a place bustling with activity. The author does a good job at describing places so that readers can understand the story.
This book is good because it is very descriptive and vivid. The characters and places are unique and have the own personal characteristics. They add to the suspense in the plot making the book and exciting read. Some of the vocabulary is tough, but it makes it a good form of literature. I would recommend this book to anyone.
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