# The Sign of Four

> Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a baffling treasure case that stretches from London opium dens to imperial secrets, coded messages, and violent revenge.

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## About
The Sign of Four is the second Sherlock Holmes novel and one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most energetic full-length mysteries. A visit from Mary Morstan leads Holmes and Watson into a case involving a vanished treasure, cryptic annual gifts, a locked-room death, and a chain of secrets reaching from Victorian London to the aftermath of British imperial rule in India.ThemesThe novel combines brisk detective plotting with questions of loyalty, greed, colonial violence, and the limits of official respectability. Holmes’s methodical intelligence is matched by Watson’s emotional and moral perspective, making the case both a puzzle and a character study.Why readers still return to itThe Sign of Four remains one of the most satisfying Holmes adventures because it balances deduction, atmosphere, chase narrative, and memorable supporting characters while sharpening the Holmes–Watson partnership.Further contextPublished in 1890, the novel helped establish Sherlock Holmes as a durable global detective figure and remains central to the early Holmes canon.

## Specifications
- author: Arthur Conan Doyle
- publisher: DotBooks
- imprint: DotBooks
- synopsis: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a baffling treasure case that stretches from London opium dens to imperial secrets, coded messages, and violent revenge.
- language: en
- binding: Perfect Bound
- pages: 118
- format: paperback
- oclc: 914177084
- openlibrary: OL262438W