Book Bearings
The Sign of Four
- 156 pages · about 3 hours
- First published 1890
- 962 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
The Sign of the Four, also called The Sign of Four, is an 1890 detective novel, the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: a mystery, a classic, and a short read.
- Crime & mystery
- Crime & mystery fiction
- Mystery
- Classics
- Literary fiction
- Mystery & Suspense
- Private investigators
- Mystery & detective, traditional
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