This Optimized by Allan Classics eBook is well-formatted for easy and enjoyable reading, and is also complete with an active Table of Contents plus a linked TOC.NCX to allow you to quickly find, and even jump back and forth, among your favorites.To find more Allan Classics at Amazon, search Amazon's catalog for "Allan Classics". (Be sure to enclose "Allan Classics" within quotes.) The Sign of the Four (1890), also called 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 1887. 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 drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in A Study in Scarlet. It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.The Sign of the Four ChaptersI The Science of DeductionII The Statement of the CaseIII In Quest of a SolutionIV The Story of the Bald-Headed ManV The Tragedy of Pondicherry LodgeVI Sherlock Holmes Gives a DemonstrationVII The Episode of the BarrelVIII The Baker Street IrregularsIX A Break in the ChainX The End of the IslanderXI The Great Agra TreasureXII The Strange Story of Jonathan Small