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I FIND it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892. Holmes had received a telegram while we sat at our lunch, and he had scribbled a reply. He made no remark, but the matter remained in his thoughts, for he stood in front of the fire afterwards with a thoughtful face, smoking his pipe, and casting an occasional glance at the message. Suddenly he turned upon me with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes."I suppose, Watson, we must look upon you as a man of letters," said he. "How do you define the word ''grotesque''?""Strange-remarkable," I suggested.He shook his head at my definition.

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About to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconceivably wicked in the universe'. A dense yellow fog descends upon London. Tricksters, thieves and murderers stalk their prey undetected. Lawlessness abounds but it is no match for the penetrating mind of Sherlock Holmes as he investigates the strangest of cases. A woman receives a gruesome package - two human ears in a box. A vital government secret is threatened with exposure. Miss Brenda Tregennis is found scared to death - could she really have died from fright alone? And when the stability of the country is threatend, Holmes' unrivalled talents are called upon once again ...

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The Sign of the Four, also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL was a British writer and medical doctor. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 when he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (1908)The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (1892)The Adventure of the Red Circle (1911)The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (1908)The Adventure of the Dying Detective (1913)The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (1911)The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (1910)His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes (1917).

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A Sherlock Holmes Mystery: The Sign of the Four.