The Sign of Four E-Book

Arthur Conan Doyle

• Herausgeber: Arthur Conan Doyle
• Kategorie: Krimi
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel in which we find investigator Sherlock Holmes as the protagonist.Miss  Mary Morstan hires Holmes because her father disappeared in India during an expedition. For years, the day of her  father's disappearance, Miss Morstan receives a pearl as a gift. Meanwhile, the author of the gift had contacted her to meet her, so 'the lady is accompanied to the meeting by Holmes and Watson ... and from here begins the adventure and  the mystery.The most important work on Sherlock Holmes second great part of literary critics.

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The Sign of Four

by

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Science of Deduction

The Statement of the Case

In Quest of a Solution

The Story of the Bald-Headed Man

The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge

Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration

The Episode of the Barrel

The Baker Street Irregulars

A Break in the Chain

The End of the Islander

The Great Agra Treasure

The Strange Story of Jonathan Small

Chapter 1

The Science of Deduction

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle and rolled back his left shirtcuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

Three times a day for many months I had witnessed this performance, but custom had not reconciled my mind to it. On the contrary, from day to day I had become more irritable at the sight, and my conscience swelled nightly within me at the thought that I had lacked the courage to protest. Again and again I had registered a vow that I should deliver my soul upon the subject; but there was that in the cool, nonchalant air of my companion which made him the last man with whom one would care to take anything approaching to a liberty. His great powers, his masterly manner, and the experience which I had had of his many extraordinary qualities, all made me diffident and backward in crossing him.