Sherlock Holmes: Who sends the MISSING 🔍 pearls each year? | Classic Detective Stories

The Sign of the Four — the case that begins with a pearl arriving in the post and ends somewhere far downriver. Complete in two parts. Total running time 1:54:12. 00:00:00 — Part One: Timbertoe (57:14) Miss Mary Morstan has received one fine pearl a year from a sender who will not give a name, and her father walked out of a London hotel years ago and never came back. The first useful mark on the ground is a footprint left by a man with a wooden leg. 00:57:14 — Part Two: The Great Agra Treasure (56:58) A police launch on the Thames after dark, a chest brought out of India, and an account of what happened at Agra during the mutiny that four men agreed never to speak of. The through-line here is distance. The crime is Victorian London, but the reason for it sits half a world away and forty years back, and Holmes has to work backwards through both. Search interest concentrates on the title — ""The Sign of the Four"" is the second strongest novel-length term in the canon after Baskervilles. Part One carries most of that traffic; Part Two is where the river sequence is. Recording: Old Time Radio, Mutual Broadcasting System, 1939–1950.