品牌：Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
基本信息
·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：160 页码
·出版日：2001年
·ISBN：0140439072
·条码：9780140439076
·版次：New Ed
·装帧：平装
·英语：英语
·丛书名：Penguin Classics
内容简介
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"Of all the Holmes stories it isThe Sign of Fourwhich remains persistently in my memory." - Graham GreeneIt is in this, the second Holmes novel, that the great detective comes fully to life—not only as a melancholic and an inscrutable master of deduction, but also as an incurable drug addict. "Which is it today?" Watson asks Holmes matter-of-factly on the opening page of the novel, "morphine or cocaine?""It is cocaine," Holmes famously replies. "A seven-per-cent solution. Would you like to try it?"Mary Morstan comes to Holmes in the hope that he will be able to solve a mystery. Ten years earlier her father, Captain Arthur Morstan, had returned to London on leave from his regiment in India where it is said that he and one Thadeus Sholto, "came into possession of a considerable treasure." By the time his daughter arrived at his hotel, he had vanished without a trace.The Sign of Fourremains a small masterpiece of suspense, and the novel has enjoyed a steady readership ever since its first publication in 1890. In recent years, however, it has not been readily available except as a part of larger omnibus Holmes anthologies.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
作者简介
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh and studied medicine. He began writing while he waited for his practice to grow and, with 1887'sA Study in Scarlet, created one of the most famous literary characters of all time. He was a volunteer physician in the Boer War and wrote a book on spiritualism. Three more volumes of his fiction are forthcoming from Penguin Classics.
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