Reading Sherlock Without a Dicitonary 2 : The Sign of Four

1. The Science of Deduction 11
2. The Statement of the case 30
3. In Quest of a Solution 42
4. The Story of the Bald-Headed Man 53
5. The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge 75
6. Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration 92
7. The Episode of the Barrel 111
8. The Baker Street Irregulars 136
9. A Break in the Chain 157
10. The End of the Islander 179
11. The Great Agra Treasure 199
12. The Strange Story of Jonathan Small 213

Synopsis of The Sign of Four 269

"... Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-colored houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? ..."

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.

"... It was a bearded, hairy face with wild cruel eyes and an expression of concentrated malevolence. ..."