Ranked #6 in Sherlock Holmes, Ranked #10 in Detective — see more rankings.
As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her. And in the ensuing investigation - which involves a wronged woman, a stolen hoard of... more
Rankings by Category
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2) is ranked in the following categories:
- #47 in Crime
- #62 in Crime Fiction
- #37 in Crime Mystery
- #72 in London
- #50 in Mystery
- #46 in Mystery Crime
- #74 in Project Gutenberg
- #84 in Public Domain
- #42 in Victorian
- #36 in Whodunnit