![]() ![]() Then it’s a quick refresher in Holmes’s methods. This was back in the good old days when respectable ladies and gentlemen could visit their pharmacist for a little heroin or cocaine for treating a variety of maladies, or just as a pick-me-up. ![]() ![]() Our story opens with the world’s only consulting detective partaking of his famous seven-per-cent solution. These sometimes felt like the stories that Conan Doyle would rather have been writing, and could easily leave readers feeling short-changed at the lack of Holmes, or even Watson, in the tales. Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of the Four (which appears just as frequently as The Sign of Four) is perhaps the best of the four full-length Sherlock Holmes novels, partly because it doesn’t include the detours into other stories that mar the remainder. ![]()
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