The Sign of the Four By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of the Four (1890) is the second Sherlock Holmes story in The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson continue to live together and at the beginning of this story we learn that Homes is addicted to cocaine, which he shoots into his veins. Watson also alludes to Holmes's use of morphine. Holmes claims that when he is not working on a case he uses these drugs to stimulate his mind. Watson is clearly upset by this fact. Then a woman named Mary Morston shows up asking for Holmes's help in figuring out the mystery of her missing father, who has been gone for ten years. She states that she was supposed to meet her father at a hotel but he never appeared after having gone out the previous night. Her father's friend (Sholto) claimed not to know he had returned. Then Mary starts receiving single pearls in the mail, the last accompanied by a letter telling her she had been wronged and requesting a meeting with...