![]() ![]() However, at the Langham, she discovers that her father stepped out the previous evening and never returned. ![]() She had never seen her father, but ten years earlier, when she was seventeen she received a letter from him saying he had retired, was on his way home and asking her to meet him at the Langham Hotel in London. Her mother died when she was very little and her father, an army Captain stationed in India, sent the child back to England to live in a boarding house. ![]() Mary Morstan, a lovely young woman, comes to the Baker Street lodgings shared by Holmes and Dr Watson. All these events are set against the turbulent backdrop of the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857 in the second Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four. A secret shared by four convicts and two prison guards, a daughter in search of her missing father, a strange gift of a single pearl received every year, a fabulous treasure buried in the ancient Agra Fort in India, an eccentric detective being consulted to solve a deadly puzzle. ![]()
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