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Title: The Sign of Four (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle, Peter Ackroyd, Ed Glinert ISBN: 0-14-043907-2 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Loyalty, Betrayal, Revenge, and Romance
Comment: A fabulous treasure dogged by murder. A trans-racial oath of loyalty. A greedy major, a cannibal pigmy, and a peg-legged convict. Mix in a pig-headed police investigator and a brilliant-but-flawed amateur detective, and you have the makings of a first-class mystery.
Miss Mary Morstan, the recipient of yearly gifts of pearls from an anonymous benefactor, receives a summons declaring her a wronged woman and promising riches if she replies. She enlists the aid of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, and finds herself in the middle of a locked-room murder mystery. If the mystery can only be solved, she will become the richest woman in England.
Holmes, in a virtuoso performance, solves the murder, finds the missing treasure, brings the killer to justice, and learns the strange tale of "The Four." Did I mention that Dr. Watson winds up married to Miss Morstan?
The format of this sequel to "A Study in Scarlet" follows basically the same pattern as the original Sherlock Holmes story. Holmes visits the scene of a baffling murder, draws amazing conclusions from his inspection of the scene, and relentlessly tracks down the villian, who then tells his story and turns out to be not such a bad guy after all.
I first read "Scarlet" and "Sign" as a pre-teenager, and they made an indelible impression on me. In my job I frequently visit murder scenes, and I believe that these two books are what have influenced me to perform inspections outside the crimescene tape.
An earlier reviewer remarked on Doyle's "politically incorrect" view of India. "The Sign of the Four" was written at the turn of the 19th century. We live in the 21st. We probably won't measure up to the 23rd century's yardstick for "political correctness" either.
Rating: 5
Summary: The second sherlock holmes's novel
Comment: In this second novel of Sherlock Holmes's Dr John Watson continues introducing the world to the singular methods of his strange friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
He starts the book with a study in deduction, looses his temper, and then cools down at Holmes's explanations. Then a singular customer appears in the stage with a strange case. This case leads to a terrific murder with outlandish murderers.
As usual, Watson, as dumb as a frog, cannot see a thing that his friend Holmes, as cleaver as a fox, can spot so easily.
The story here is a bit slow, especially in the capture of the villains, but it ends in a thrilling manhunt, and then in an unearthly account of the major villain.
This novel, in my opinion, is the best Sherlock Holmes's ever written by Doyle. I think any Holmes's fan must read it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Tapers off at the end
Comment: The first two-thirds of this short novel are ripe with the foggy atmosphere of Victorian London, as Holmes and Watson seek to help the pretty young client secure her legacy, a trunk filled with stolen jewels. But the thief-murderer duo are apprehended long before the end, and the last part is his rather mundane account of how the jewels were stolen in India and life at the prison on the Andaman Islands. There's actually very little "mystery" or detection to it, since we know who the thief-murderer are early on. The boat chase on the Thames is not especially interesting or convincing, nor is the romance between Dr. Watson and the pretty client. What saves this is the almost palpable atmosphere of London in the time of Jack the Ripper, plus the outrageous conclusions drawn by Sherlock Holmes.
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Title: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle ISBN: 0140057072 Publisher: Penguin USA (Mm) Pub. Date: June, 1982 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Valley of Fear and Selected Cases (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle, Charles Palliser, Ed Glinert ISBN: 014043772X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ISBN: 068983571X Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes & the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle, Iain Pears, Ed Glinert ISBN: 0140437711 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ISBN: 055321263X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1985 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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