The Sign of Four (SH #2)

Of the four independent novellas from the Sherlock Holmes complete collection, this is marginally my least favourite.

Funnily enough, this is probably the most typically Sherlock Holmes of the four novellas with its winding ramblings through London, high-jinx burglaries and mysterious bloodhound trails, and I enjoyed it a lot, but it's also rather farfetched, repetitive and unrealistic.

The overall conclusion didn't gel as well as some of the other Sherlock Holmes stories I've read, but it's still charming and fantastically written like all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work.