The Sign of Four part 14

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The Sign of Four part 13

Tomorrow:  The end of the case!

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The Sign of Four part 12

Tomorrow:  Murder most foul!

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The Sign of Four part 11

Tomorrow:  The strange story of Jonathan Small!

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The Sign of Four part 10

Tomorrow:  The great Agra treasure!

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The Sign of Four part 9

Tomorrow:  The pipe of Death!

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The Sign of Four part 8

Tomorrow:  A sailor in disguise!

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The Sign of Four part 7

Tomorrow:  A mysterious telegram from Sherlock Holmes!

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The Sign of Four part 6

Tomorrow:  Toby makes a mistake!

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The Sign of Four part 5

Tomorrow:  Scotland Yard makes an arrest!

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The Sign of Four part 4

Tomorrow: First evidence of the Sign of Four!

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The Sign of Four part 3

Tomorrow: Horror in the house at Norwood!

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The Sign of Four part 2

Tomorrow: Thaddeus Sholto's amazing story!

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The Sign of Four part 1

The comic strips are back! We haven't run one for a while as most of my time in front of the computer has been dedicated to scanning book covers from books that I'm getting rid of, plus the occasional cover gallery, knocked together while I have all the books in one place. However, I'm dedicating Sunday evening to cleaning up pages from The Sign of Four, an adaptation of the second of Arthur Conan Doyle's four Sherlock Holmes' novels (it was a sequel to A Study in Scarlet and preceded The Valley of Fear and The Hound of the Baskervilles).

This adaptation appeared in Look and Learn between September and December 1968, drawn by Robert Forrest, who had earlier drawn an adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. As I implied previously, Forrest is a bit of an acquired taste, one that it took me a little while to discover. It was only after I'd seen a lot more of his earlier work for the Thriller Picture Library, where he worked on Victorian classics like Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde and The Picture of Dorien Gray, that I began to appreciate his style. The two Sherlock Holmes adaptations were amongst his last work and a fitting tribute to an artist who was at his best when depicting London's foggy, lamplit streets.

Make sure you come back tomorrow for the next episode, which introduces one of the villains of the piece, Thaddeus Sholto.

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