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Sherlock Holmes in a Study in Scarlet (Radio)
Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four (Radio)
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (ep01) A Scandal in Bohemia
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (ep02) The Red-headed League
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (ep03) A Case of Identity
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (ep04) The Boscombe Valley Mystery
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (ep05) The Five Orange Pips
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (ep06) The Man with the Twisted Lip
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (ep07) The Blue Carbuncle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (ep08) The Speckled Band
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (ep09) The Engineer's Thumb
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ep10 The Noble Bachelor
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ep11 The Beryl Coronet
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ep12 The Copper Beeches
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (ep01) Silver Blaze Radio
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (ep02) The Yellow Face
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (ep03) The Stockbroker's Clerk
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (ep04) The Gloria Scott
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (ep05) The Musgrave Ritual
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (ep06) The Reigate Squires
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (ep07) The Crooked Man
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (ep08) The Resident Patient
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (ep09) The Greek Interpreter
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (ep10) The Naval Treaty
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (ep11) The Final Problem
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (ep01) The Empty House
The Return of Sherlock Holmes ep02 The Norwood Builder
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (ep03) The Dancing Men
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (ep04) The Solitary Cyclist
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (ep05) The Priory School
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (ep06) Black Peter
The Return of Sherlock Holmes ep07 Charles Augustus Milverton
The Return of Sherlock Holmes ep08 The Six Napoleons
The Return of Sherlock Holmes ep09 The Three Students
The Return of Sherlock Holmes ep10 The Golden Pince-nez
The Return of Sherlock Holmes ep11 The Missing Three-quarter
The Return of Sherlock Holmes ep12 The Abbey Grange
The Return of Sherlock Holmes ep13 The Second Stain
Sherlock Holmes - His Last Bow (ep01) Wisteria Lodge
Sherlock Holmes - His Last Bow (ep02) The Cardboard Box
Sherlock Holmes - His Last Bow (ep03) The Red Circle
Sherlock Holmes - His Last Bow (ep04) The Bruce Partington Plans
Sherlock Holmes - His Last Bow (ep05) The Dying Dectective
Sherlock Holmes - His Last Bow ep06 The Disapperance of Lady Frances Carfax
Sherlock Holmes - His Last Bow (ep07) The Devil's Foot
Sherlock Holmes - His Last Bow (ep08) His Last Bow
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (ep01) The Illustrious Client
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (ep02) The Blanched Soldier
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (ep03) The Mazarin Stone
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes ep04 The Three Gables
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes ep05 The Sussex Vampire
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes ep06 The Three Garridebs
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes ep07 The Problem of Thor Bridge
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes ep08 The Creeping Man
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes ep09 The Lion's Mane
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes ep10 The Veiled Lodger
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes ep11 Shoscombe Old Place
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes ep12 The Retired Colourman
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ep01 The Madness of Colonel Warburton
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ep02 The Star of the Adelphi
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ep03 The Peculiar Persecution of Mr. John Vincent Harden
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ep04 The Singular Inheritance of Miss Gloria Wilson
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ep05 The Saviour of Cripplegate Square
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ep06 The Abergavenny Murder
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ep07 The Shameful Betrayal of Miss Emily Smith
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ep08 The Tragedy of Hanbury Street
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ep09 The Determined Client
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ep10 The Striking Success of Miss Franny Blossom
Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four (Radio)
The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective.
Plot
In 1888, Dr. Watson remonstrates with Holmes about his cocaine usage. Holmes claims he is bored and needs a problem to solve; Miss Mary Morstan arrives with a case.
She explains that, in December 1878, her father, Captain Arthur Morstan, arrived in London, on leave from his post as a convict guard in the Andaman Islands. He requested her to meet him at the Langham Hotel but was not there when she arrived.
Mary contacted Major John Sholto, a former convict guard who knew her father and was living in England; however, he denied having seen Morstan, who was never heard from again. Four years later, Mary answered an anonymous newspaper advertisement, asking for her whereabouts. She then received a valuable pearl in the post, a gift repeated once a year for six years.
With the sixth pearl, she received a letter asking for a meeting, claiming she had been "wronged". Holmes takes the case, and soon discovers that Major Sholto had died in 1882; within a week of his death, Mary received the first pearl. The only further clue Mary can give Holmes is a map of a fortress found in her father's desk, appended with the words "The Sign of the Four: Jonathan Small, Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Khan, and Dost Akbar".
Publication history
The 1892 cloth-bound cover of The Sign of Four after it was compiled as a single book.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described how he was commissioned to write the story over a dinner with Joseph Marshall Stoddart, managing editor of the American publication Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, at the Langham Hotel in London on 30 August 1889. Stoddart wanted to produce an English version of Lippincott’s with a British editor and British contributors. The dinner was also attended by Oscar Wilde, who eventually contributed The Picture of Dorian Gray to the July 1890 issue. Doyle discussed what he called this "golden evening" in his 1924 autobiography Memories and Adventures.
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, 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.
The Sign of the Four was adapted for radio by Bert Coules in 1989 as part of BBC Radio 4's complete Sherlock Holmes 1989–1998 radio series, with Clive Merrison as Holmes, Michael Williams as Watson, and featuring Brian Blessed as Jonathan Small.
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