With its complex plot full of twists and turns, surprise endings of the chain of mysterious events, the novel keeps the readers engaged until the very last page. However, the real success of Holmes’s stories came with The Sign of the Four. With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock. All four legendary Sherlock Holmes novels, collected in a unique Graphic Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Michael Dirda Though endlessly reinterpreted, reinvented, and imitated. In this novel we become acquainted with Holmes’s famous method of deduction. Watson, on whose behalf most of the cases are written. Lees The Complete Illustrated Novels of Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear. This novel, a cornerstone in the annals of crime fiction, tells of their first meeting and how they set up in rooms together in Baker Street. In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first meet and investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a deserted house. The Sign of The FourĪ Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four are the first tales about the legendary detective, published in 18, respectively.Ī Study in Scarlet marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend and chronicler Dr.

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