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Title: Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle, Walter Covell ISBN: 0-7861-0584-4 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Pub. Date: August, 1997 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 3 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (12 reviews)
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: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: Like the other three Holmes novels, this book is a masterpiece. Sure, it is old (over 100 years, in fact) but, being Holmes, it will always be as fresh and exciting as it was the day it was released. Although all the Holmes stories are great, and you will have a good time reading any of them, I reccommend reading the books in chronological order (this can be conveniently done with the omnibus The Complete Sherlock Holmes), it will only serve to make you like the stories even more.
Anyways, this is the second Holmes story, and it is a page-turner, full of suspense. Also, it delivers the kind of intrigue and "how did he know that! " disbelief that only a Sherlock Holmes story can generate. It is because of this, and the stunning detail in which he is described throughout the 60 Holmes stories, that the hardcore readers of the Holmes stories cannont alltogether accept him as fictional. No character in the history of fiction has ever been more real to his readers, and none ever will be. Many Holmes fans have been known to feel remorse, even sadness upon visiting the Rickenback Fall (where Doyle originally tried to kill Holmes). That may sound fanciful, but indulge yourself in the 60 Holmes stories (including this one-one of the best) and see if you fall into that category.
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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