Sherlock Holmes was dead, thrown over a Swiss waterfall ... and one of the things that the public very much wanted across the 1890s and early 1900s was gothic novels, supernatural fiction of ...

The Sign of the Four was Doyle's next entry into the narrative of Sherlock Holmes, and the second of his four novels, released in 1890. This story steps up the mystery and intrigue with a secret ...

He was the mysterious and ruthless ‘Napoleon of crime’ in the Sherlock Holmes novels by Scots author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But now a leading Scottish scholar has claimed the true identity of ...

The Sign of the Four was published in 1890. To a certain extent, the character of Sherlock Holmes appealed to a sense of superiority amongst the upper social classes of Victorian Britain.

Take, for example, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, a Holmes story set in 1890s London ... of the first flight,” he wrote, “and Sherlock, like his author, grows a little stiff ...

The Sign of the Four was first published in the UK in 1890, two years after Conan Doyle's debut Sherlock Holmes novel A Study In Scarlet. Its first appearance was in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine ...