A review by mairelon
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

3.0

This one wins points for not having a prolonged flashback to Utah for half the book, as well as namedropping the Ballarat goldfields.

It loses points for the murderer being an

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Era typical racists caricature of a very, very short cannibalistic indigenous person

and not a

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monkey, like I'd thought.