- Title Pages
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Texts and References
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Stone into Money -
Chapter 2 The Roylotts of Stoke Moran -
Chapter 3 The Guardians of Securities -
Chapter 4 The Pick of a Bad Lot -
Chapter 5 The Fall of the House of Musgrave -
Chapter 6 A Scandal in East Yorkshire -
Chapter 7 Singular Occurrence at a Wedding -
Chapter 8 The Rock of Gibraltar -
Chapter 9 The Discreetly Shadowed Corners -
Chapter 10 The Worst Man in London -
Chapter 11 The Whole Queer Business of Wisteria Lodge -
Chapter 12 Nice, Amiable People! -
Chapter 13 A Nobler Man Never Walked the Earth -
Chapter 14 The Heat of the Amazon Was Always in her Blood -
Chapter 15 This Circle of Misery and Violence and Fear -
Chapter 16 Do We Progress? -
Chapter 17 The East Wind -
Chapter 18 That Secret History of a Nation -
Chapter 19 Oaths and Secrets -
Chapter 20 The Giant Rat of Sumatra - Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Nice, Amiable People!
Nice, Amiable People!
- Chapter:
- (p.125) Chapter 12 Nice, Amiable People!
- Source:
- The Case of Sherlock Holmes
- Author(s):
Andrew Glazzard
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
The Sign of Four was Conan Doyle’s second attempt at rewriting Wilkie Collins’s landmark detective novel The Moonstone. His fi rst, published between A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four, was The Mystery of Cloomber (1888), a short novel that Doyle later came to regard as mere apprentice work. It is certainly derivative: its setting in a coastal village in south-west Scotland is strongly redolent of Stevenson, with an atmosphere recalling that of some of Doyle’s favourites, such as ‘The Pavilion on the Links’ (1880). Technically, though, it follows Collins in its use of multiple narrators presenting their testimony, some of which takes the form of legalised witness statements and other official documents. But the influence of Collins is even more apparent in The Mystery of Cloomber’s characters, plot and orientalist tropes.
Keywords: Colonialism, India, Mutiny, Race, The Sign of Four
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- Title Pages
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Texts and References
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Stone into Money -
Chapter 2 The Roylotts of Stoke Moran -
Chapter 3 The Guardians of Securities -
Chapter 4 The Pick of a Bad Lot -
Chapter 5 The Fall of the House of Musgrave -
Chapter 6 A Scandal in East Yorkshire -
Chapter 7 Singular Occurrence at a Wedding -
Chapter 8 The Rock of Gibraltar -
Chapter 9 The Discreetly Shadowed Corners -
Chapter 10 The Worst Man in London -
Chapter 11 The Whole Queer Business of Wisteria Lodge -
Chapter 12 Nice, Amiable People! -
Chapter 13 A Nobler Man Never Walked the Earth -
Chapter 14 The Heat of the Amazon Was Always in her Blood -
Chapter 15 This Circle of Misery and Violence and Fear -
Chapter 16 Do We Progress? -
Chapter 17 The East Wind -
Chapter 18 That Secret History of a Nation -
Chapter 19 Oaths and Secrets -
Chapter 20 The Giant Rat of Sumatra - Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
