The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called the Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock I lolmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine induced harc at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before, Four years later she began to reveive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now the has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her.

“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 FourArguing 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, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British writer of detective and science fiction. Shafquat Towheed is a Lecturer in English at the Open University, UK.

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ISBN 13	9781551118376
ISBN 10	1551118378
Title	The Sign of Four
Author	Arthur Conan Doyle
Series	Broadview Editions
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Broadview Press Ltd
Year published	2010-07-30
Number of pages	224
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