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100 1 _aDoyle, Arthur Conan,
_d1859-1930
240 1 4 _aThe sign of the four. French
245 1 3 _aLa marque des quatre
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Signe_des_quatre
500 _aRelease date is 2025-07-03
508 _aClaudine 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))
520 _aLa 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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1896
653 _aHolmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
653 _aPrivate investigators -- England -- Fiction
653 _aDetective and mystery stories
700 1 _aOilliamson, Jeanne de Polignac, comtesse d',
_d1861-1919
856 4 _uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k804868/f7.item
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76433
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