Sherlock Holmes: The Sign Of The Four

Doyle, Arthur Conan

ISBN 10: 1445830434 ISBN 13: 9781445830438

Casa editrice: BBC Physical Audio, 2012

Riassunto

A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a young woman to a sinister assignation. For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman. If she wishes to seek justice, she must meet her unknown benefactor, and she begs the great detective and his friend to accompany her on her mission. Sherlock agrees, and Watson is only too keen to comply with her request, having fallen in love with the beautiful Mary. But unknown to the three companions, others stalk London's fog-enshrouded streets: a one-legged ruffian with revenge on his mind - and his companion, who places no value on human life...

4 CDs. 4 hrs 30 mins.

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Descrizione del libro:

Emmy award-winning actor Sir Derek Jacobi reads this full-length story featuring Holmes and Watson.

L'autore:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student.Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). This was followed in 1889 by an historical novel, Micah Clarke. In 1893 Conan Doyle published 'The Final Problem' in which he killed off his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more towards historical fiction. However Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901. The events of the The Hound of the Baskervilles are set before those of 'The Final Problem' but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not died after all. He was finally retired in 1927. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.

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• Editore: BBC Physical Audio
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1445830434
• ISBN 13: 9781445830438
• Rilegatura: Audio CD