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The Sign of the Four
Korean edition · 네 사람의 서명
베이커 스트리트의 일상과 홈즈·왓슨의 대화로 문을 여는 추리 장편.
Read this edition →An opening sentence
Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case.
Series and reading order
Sherlock Holmes
The Sign of the Four · 1890 · Novel
Holmes and Watson follow small clues through the cases of Baker Street, one story at a time.
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- Edition
- English original · en-v1 · 2026-10-05
- Editorial notes
- The full English novel is retained, including the documents, gazetteer quotation and closing German verse. Chapter headings are restored for navigation. Source front matter, contents and license footer are omitted; whitespace is normalized. Original chronology and descriptions are preserved.
- Work
- The Sign of the Four
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Basis for original work rights
- A work by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), first published in 1890. The original is beyond South Korea's copyright term of 70 years after the author's death. Project Gutenberg lists the work as public domain in the United States.
- Source edition
- The Sign of the Four (1890); Project Gutenberg eBook 2097 transcription. Underlying print edition not specified by the source.
- Transcription and attribution
- Project Gutenberg #2097. The source does not identify transcription contributors. Source credit only; this edition is independently prepared.
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