Mystery Book Club: “The Sign of Four” by Arthur Conan Doyle-Monday, December 8 at 3:00 p.m. (Zoom)

Read & discuss classic & contemporary mysteries. December Book: The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle. For a Zoom code contact: chemingeway@hagamanlibrary.org

The Sign of Four is the second Sherlock Holmes novel, in which a client named Mary Morstan hires the detective to investigate the disappearance of her father and a series of mysterious pearls she has been receiving. The case leads Holmes, Watson, and the police to Jonathan Small, an ex-convict who seeks a buried treasure that was originally part of a betrayal by a group of four men, the titular “sign of four”. The story combines a treasure hunt and murder mystery with the growing romance between Watson and Mary.