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... to the criteria I define at the end of my LT profile. The six titles that didn't make the cut are the following:
11. The Sign of Four & The Valley of Fear – A. Conan Doyle (3.5)
12. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie (3.5)
13. The Maltese Falcon – Dash ... My Penguin Classic came this weekend, too. I got The Sign of Four which I'm really looking forward to. The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ... by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A great first Sherlock Holmes read. It was not what I expected, in many ways.
48F.) The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Pretty good, although ran on a bit long.
49F.) The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The ... #116 jlcardwell, And another thanks from me as well. I'm getting Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle. Woohoo!!
One thing that out of dumb luck worked for me with Harper Collins was sending my review to the woman who's email address was listed on the back of an ARC I got through LT. Along ... ... The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
Braining that widow
was civic duty, not crime.
Where is his medal?
60. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
Blow-darts and needles:
kept in cases, marked by blood,
dipped in solutions. ... written in English;
The Tain
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Detection Novels;
Halloween Party
Nemesis
The Sign of Four
Don't Cry for me Aberystwyth
Plays;
A Streetcar named Desire
Julius Caesar
Pygmalion
The ones I've listed are the ones I've started ... ... or so ago, starring the late Ian Richardson as Dr Bell. He also played Holmes itself in TV film versions of Hound and Sign of Four. ... Agatha Christie
The winner -- one book that seems to fit (admittedly with some effort) in all the above categories:
The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle ... and Peter Yearsley)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (read by Laurie Anne Walden) - not bad
The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (read by Robin Cotter) - not bad
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (read by Chip) - brilliant
The ... I'm getting on quite well with classic audio books at the moment - moving onto The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle now... ... Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, which I've borrowed from a good buddy.
have also started listening to a new audio book - The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Two Lives by Vikram Seth
Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
Five on Treasure Island by Enid Blyton
... - A Study in Scarlet
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of Four
Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
Choderlos de ... ... succession a whole series of my favourite airs as a slight compensation for the trial upon my patience."
And then in The Sign of Four chapter 8 closes with this:
" 'Look here, Watson; you look regularly done. Lie down there on the sofa and see if I can put you to sleep.'
He took up ... ... Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
I ... You are. Cocaine.
The Sign of Four begins and ends with Holmes reaching for the cocaine bottle. There's also a mention of morphine, which may be where your husband got the notion of heroin, but cocaine is clearly Holmes' drug of choice. ... was a question on the LJ Baker Street community which was the 'one' Sherlock Holmes to read - I think the consensus was The Sign of the Four for the novels, though the short story choice was a bit up in the air...
A quick addition - I haven't read that much Chesterson, but surely some of ...
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