.png "Library Home Page")
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Simon Prebble
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Coral Glynn arrives at Hart House, an isolated manse in the English countryside, early in the very wet spring of 1950, to nurse the elderly Mrs. Hart, who is dying of cancer. Hart House is also inhabited by Mrs. Prence, the perpetually disgruntled housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, Mrs. Hart's war-ravaged son, who is struggling to come to terms with his latent homosexuality. When a child's game goes violently awry in the woods surrounding Hart
...Author
Series
Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The Sign Of Four is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The SIGN OF THE FOUR has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's...