02992cam a22003733u 4500 76433 UtSlPG 20260610134753.0 m cr n 260607r20251896utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fr iso639-1 PR Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 The sign of the four. French La marque des quatre Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Signe_des_quatre Release date is 2025-07-03 Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) La marque des quatre by Arthur Conan Doyle is a detective novel written in the late 19th century. It follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate Miss Mary Morstan’s troubling case involving her missing father, mysterious pearls sent annually, and whispers of a hidden treasure tied to soldiers from India. The opening of the novel presents Holmes’s restless intellect and cocaine use, his method of observation and deduction (demonstrated through a revealing analysis of Watson’s watch), and the arrival of Miss Morstan with her story: her father vanished years earlier, she has since received yearly rare pearls, and a new letter invites her to a secret meeting. Holmes and Watson accompany her to the rendezvous, are whisked through foggy London to Thaddeus Sholto, who recounts how his father, Major Sholto, concealed Captain Morstan’s sudden death during a quarrel about a trove from India, hid the treasure, feared a one‑legged man, and died amid a mysterious intrusion marked “The Sign of Four.” Thaddeus explains that his twin, Bartholomew, has just found the treasure in a concealed garret, and the group rushes to Pondicherry Lodge, where a wary gatekeeper and a distraught housekeeper deepen the unease. At the top of the house they find Bartholomew’s laboratory locked; through the keyhole they glimpse his ghastly, frozen face, and as Holmes and Watson break down the door, the scene of the first crisis comes into view. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1896 Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Private investigators -- England -- Fiction Detective and mystery stories Oilliamson, Jeanne de Polignac, comtesse d', 1861-1919 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k804868/f7.item https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76433 117158 117158