Contents of this book:

1. Research by deductive method

2. Statement of the case

3. Seeking answers

The Story of the Four Bald Men

The Tragedy of Wuyingnuma Villa

Six Sherlock Holmes Makes a Judgment

The Interlude of Seven Barrels

Eight The Detective Squad of Baker Street

The Interruption of the Nine Clues

The End of the Ten Murderers

The Eleven Treasures of Agra

The Twelve Joans The Strange Story of Nothan Small

2. Characters

Four signatures:

Johnathan Small

Mahomet Singh

Abdullah Kahn

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Captain Arthur Morstan: British army officer.

Mary Morstan: Captain Morstan’s daughter.

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Major John Sholto: Late British Army officer.

Thaddeus Sholto: Major Sholto's son.

Bartholomew Sholto: Thaddeus' twin brother.

Mcmurdo: Bartholomew's servant.

Lal Rao: Bartholomew's housekeeper.

Mrs. Bernstone: Bartholomew's housekeeper.

Athelney Jones: Detective at England Yard.

Old Sherman: Toby's owner.

Toby: an ugly, long-haired, floppy-eared dog with an amazing sense of smell.

Mordecai Smith boat lessor. Owner of the Aurora.

Tonga: Native of the Andaman Islands.

Wiggins: Baker Street Irregulars ) Captain.

3. Summary of the story

Dear poster: This is July 7, 1887. When the story begins, Holmes is injecting 7's cocaine solution. His This bad behavior has been going on for some time. Watson expressed strong opposition to this.

Merry came to visit Holmes for help. Her mother, when she was still very young, had Her father was a British officer stationed in India. She had not seen her father for many years. She was sent to a boarding school many years ago.

About ten years ago, her father She asked for leave and returned to England. On December 3, 1878, she received a telegram from her father, saying that he had arrived at a hotel in London and asked her to go there. But she rushed to the hotel that day and wanted to reunite her father and daughter. At that time, she was told that her father had left the day before her arrival and never came back.

Major Sholto was a retired comrade from the same regiment as her father. When her father disappeared, At that time, Sholto was living in London. The two of them served together in the garrison on Amanda Island. On April 28, 1882, four years after Captain Moston disappeared, Major Sholto died.

After Sholto's death, that is, starting from May 4, 1882, six years ago, Mellie began to receive gifts on the same date every year.

An expensive pearl.

On July 7, 1887, the day she came to visit Holmes, she received an anonymous letter asking her to meet outside a theater.

Merry discovers a treasure map with four signatures among her father's things.

They head to the theater and are whisked away in a carriage to meet Thaddeus .

Thaddeus lived in a luxurious apartment. He told them that his father brought back a large amount of treasure from India, part of which should belong to Captain Morstan. At that time, Morstan As soon as the captain arrived in London, he came to his father to explain the matter. Before Major Sholto died, he told his two sons that he had had a fierce quarrel with Captain Morstan over the disagreement over how to divide the treasure equally. Morstan The captain, who had a serious heart condition, died of a sudden heart attack during the process.

After their father's death, Thaddeus and Bartholomew immediately began a thorough search of their home. Inside and out, but no clues were found.

Finally, just one day ago, Bartholomew finally discovered the treasure. Thaddeus hoped to give Mellie her due share , to make up for the mistakes his father had made. Bartholomew reluctantly agreed.

When Watson, Holmes, Mellie and Thaddeus arrived at Bartholomew's residence, It was discovered that he had been murdered with poisonous thorns, and the treasure had disappeared.

Tong Ge stepped on the pomegranate oil in Bartholomew's laboratory, and Holmes used Toby's sensitive sense of smell to start tracking. Bee finally took them to a dock on the Thames River. Holmes learned that the target he was following had rented a motorboat and left 24 hours ago.

Holmes asked Wiggins, the captain of the Baker Street team, to He led his men to search for the steamboat "Dawn" along the upper and lower reaches of the Thames. But they found nothing.

Holmes disguised himself as a sailor and began to investigate in person. He finally found the missing boat The ship was undergoing repairs, and it was learned that Mausky Smith and others would leave the shipyard at 8 p.m. He contacted Jones and asked him to prepare a police motorboat to be on the other side of the shipyard to carry out the operation when the Dawn left. Tracking and pursuit.

The "Dawn" sailed towards the Esmeida, which was about to sail to Brazil.

The police motorboat caught up with the "Dawn". During the pursuit , the Amanda native used a blowpipe to blow out a poisonous thorn at Holmes and Watson. He was immediately shot by Holmes and Watson and fell into the river and drowned.

Watson moved He went to see Meili with the treasure box. But when the box was opened, he found that it was empty. Because at this time, the obstacle caused by the huge "wealth" between them had disappeared, Watson mustered up the courage to propose to Meili. , and Meili also agreed.

It turned out that when Simao found out that he was about to be caught up by the police, he had scattered the treasures and thrown them into the Thames River, which was about 5 miles long.

Smao told Holmes and others his story:

He was a soldier of the British Army in India. Due to a series of changes, he finally came to a building in Agra during the "Great Rebellion" Castle. He and three Sikh warriors killed a servant of the Tuwang and stole the treasure he brought.

Sholto and Morstan were officers stationed in the prison at the time. Simao The two of them reached an agreement that if they could help Simao and the other four escape, they would tell them where the treasure was hidden. But Sholto deceived Simao, Morstan and others, and returned to England immediately after getting the treasure. .

Si Mao’s job was to help the prison doctor, so he also learned some medical knowledge. Once, he found a native named Tong Ge who was on the verge of death due to a serious illness. Under care, Tong Ge slowly recovered. In this way, they became sworn friends. Tong Ge had a boat, and Simao used it to escape from prison. It took Simao and Tong Ge several years to return to London. Because Major Sholto hired people to guard him tightly, and Simao had no chance to get close until his death.

The story of "The Sign of Four" is over, and the life of our great protagonist continues: Watson soon Just go with

Mellie is happily married, while Holmes is addicted to bottles of cocaine because he has no case to solve...

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