The Sign of Four

The Sign of Four

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock Holmes is the Hero of the story.

Holmes is one of the most amazing guys I have ever read about.  He is sharp, quick, intelligent, observant, very energetic, and the world's most famous detective.  He lives with Watson and is also a scientist/chemist.  He likes trying to invent ways to stop crime by inventing powders, chemicals, and anything of the sort to help the police out with finding the bad guy.

Holmes does right when he decides to fight crime, not use his powers for doing crime.

I can identify with Holmes when he states that he hates crime.

Dr. Watson is another character.

He writes down all the cases that he and Holmes go on and sometimes helps with Holmes cases.  He is a retired army doctor and was wounded in the war, so that he was discharged.

John Small is a main character in this story.  He is a man who was betrayed by his friends and crippled.  He is a large man who lives only for revenge.  He is not violent or evil, he has just harbored the thought of getting revenge for so long that it has consumed him.

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The story takes place in London around 1860.

London is a place filled with crime and decider, and Holmes is out to stop it.

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Probably that crime does not pay, and that you sin will always find you out.

This is a story of mystery, intrigue, murder, revenge, and treasure.

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1. Holmes is hired by a lady to come with her, she got a telegram from a man that told her to meet him a a house.  When they get there a small bald man tells them a story about how their father left half a million in jewels to them and how he thought a man was after them.
2. When they got to his twin brother's house, they find him dead, and the treasure gone.  Holmes and Watson immediately go after the man.
3. They catch up to him while trying to make his getaway and they are forced to shoot this small indian with a deadly poison blow dart.
4. John Small (the bad guy) tells them how he was betrayed and how his servant, the one Holmes had shot, had killed the brother.  Then he told them that he had thrown the treasure off the ship and into the water.

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I thought it was very well written and thought out.

I liked it how in the end Watson got the lady who hired them, and they got married.

I don't think I didn't like any of the story.

Not really.

No, the story had lots of good twists.

Watson got the girl, the bad guy got ten years.

The End
Ky