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Sherlock Holmes - plot

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This video looks at how The Sign of the Four is a complex detective story, involving stolen treasure, dirty double-crossing and a secret pact among four convicts. The Sign of the Four is the second novel by Arthur Conan Doyle about master detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr John Watson. In this story they solve a mystery of hidden treasure and murder.

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