The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has
a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian
Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts
("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents
the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in
the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet
(1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.
The novel first appeared in the February 1890 edition of
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine as The Sign of the Four; or The Problem of the
Sholtos (five-word title), appearing in both London and Philadelphia. The
British edition of the magazine originally sold for a shilling, and the
American for 25 cents. Surviving copies are now worth several thousand dollars.
Kayden Oconnel, John Morland, and Caledonia Skytower, live in voice.
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