It is cocaine...a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of Four

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Topic

Cocaine Drugs

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

The Sign of Four

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

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Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur. "The Sign of the Four; or, The Problem of the Sholtos." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. London: Lippincott's, 1890, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur. The Sign of Four. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2009, ch. 1.

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Time
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