The Sign of the Four - Softcover

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1619491737 ISBN 13: 9781619491731

Publisher: Empire Books, 2011

Synopsis

Several years after the mysterious disappearance of her father, Mary Morstan discovers an advertisement in a local paper requesting her own address. Her employer advises her to reveal it, and when she does she receives a valuable pearl by post. Presented with these facts and little else, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must unravel a mystery involving stolen treasure, political rebellion, India, and a pact made by four convicts, in Arthur Conan Doyle’s second Sherlock Holmes novel.

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Review:

In this erudite and provocative edition, Shafquat Towheed offers fans of both Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle an intricate account of the intertextual histories at the heart of The Sign of Four. Arguing for the inextricability of its colonial plots with its work as detective fiction, Towheed builds a persuasive case for The Sign of Four as Mutiny fiction, positioning it as pivotal to the imperial career of 'British' fiction per se. Readers of this edition will be gripped by the colonial pathways Towheed reveals, the politics of citation he uncovers, and the entanglement of home and empire he tracks in the making of the novel. This is postcolonial interpretation at its very best. --Antoinette Burton

Perhaps the greatest of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries is this: that when we talk of him we invariably fall into the fancy of his existence. --T. S. Eliot

Book Description:

Emmy award-winning actor Sir Derek Jacobi reads this full-length story featuring Holmes and Watson.

About this edition

• Publisher: Empire Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1619491737
• ISBN 13: 9781619491731
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124