The Sign of the Four
The Agra treasure, the Andaman Islands, and Jonathan Small's tale — colonial India's violence returning to haunt London.
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From The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The stories repeatedly engage with colonial returnees, aristocratic scandal, and the dark underside of Victorian respectability.
The Speckled Band (Adventures)
Dr. Grimesby Roylott returned from India; the predatory aristocrat threatening his stepdaughters.
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Holmes's famous denunciation of the countryside: 'They always fill me with a certain horror... the lonely houses... and the impunity with which crime may be committed there.'
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