Sign of the Four
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good-V.Good
- ISBN 10
- 0345317416
- ISBN 13
- 9780345317414
- Seller
-
cremona, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada: Ballantine Books of Canada, 1983. 130 pp. Introduction by P.G. Wodehouse. Murder in a room bolted from the inside. Soft cover has very minimal rubbing, no creases, bright and clean, some faint crinkling to back bottom edge, No former owner's name, text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy.. Mass Market Paperback. Good-V.Good.
Synopsis
From the book:Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thought-fully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction. Three times a day for many months I had witnessed this performance, but custom had not reconciled my mind to it. On the contrary, from day to day I had become more irritable at the sight, and my conscience swelled nightly within me at the thought that I had lacked the courage to protest. Again and again I had registered a vow that I should deliver my soul upon the subject, but there was that in the cool, nonchalant air of my companion which made him the last man with whom one would care to take anything approaching to a liberty. His great powers, his masterly manner, and the experience which I had had of his many extraordinary qualities, all made me diffident and backward in crossing him.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ghost River Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0060019
- Title
- Sign of the Four
- Author
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-V.Good
- ISBN 10
- 0345317416
- ISBN 13
- 9780345317414
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books of Canada
- Place of Publication
- Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Date Published
- 1983
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ghost River Books
Biblio member since 2004
cremona, Alberta
About Ghost River Books
Seller of rare and used books.
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