Arthur Conan Doyle

El signo de los cuatro es la segunda novela protagonizada por Sherlock Holmes, escrita por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Su t tulo tambi n se ha traducido como La se al de los cuatro. Se trata (junto a Estudio en escarlata, El sabueso de los Baskerville y El valle del terror) de una de las cuatro nicas novelas que Arthur Conan Doyle escribi con Holmes como protagonista, ya que el resto de sus obras acerca de este personaje son relatos cortos. La petici n de una mujer a Sherlock Holmes para acompa arla a visitar a un hombre y la muerte del hermano del mismo, lo lleva descubrir, junto al Dr. Watson, el secreto que hay tras un tesoro encontrado en la India, un juramento entre tres indios, un blanco y una enloquecedora sed de venganza.

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literary detective characters. He wrote the story in 1886, and it was published the next year. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to his sidekick Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it." Although Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories featuring Holmes, A Study in Scarlet is one of only four full-length novels in the original canon. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the Adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.