Chapter 1375： "Four Signatures" Case (Two in One

Apartment 221b Baker Street.

Alves sat on a wicker chair with a copy of Sherlock Holmes in his hand. He looked at the portrait of Sherlock Holmes on the cover that looked quite similar to him, as if he were looking at himself when he was young.

He has read the two stories "Study of Blood Characters" and "Four Signatures".

At this time, although he was sitting quietly on the wicker chair, deep in his heart, he was burning like a flame.

The hot burning flame made him feel that he seemed to be a few dozen years younger, with endless drive and strength in his whole body.

Of course, Alves knew that it was just an illusion in his heart.

But in the past few days, Alves really feels that he seems to be much younger, and his already healthy body seems to be more healthy.

Alves didn't know that this was actually because he had taken a cup, Li Fan gave him the spiritual spring of space, but his body became more healthy, which made him very excited.

Because he knows that his apartment at 221b Baker Street will continue to welcome many guests from then on.

Guests will come to visit, Mr. Holmes, the detective who lives here.

Of course there will be no Sherlock Holmes, but there is him Alves.

Moreover, the image of Sherlock Holmes portrayed by Li Fan is based on his appearance, and the image of Sherlock Holmes is seven to eight points similar to him.

At that time, he will be Holmes.

Thinking of this, Alves is very excited and triumphant. He likes to read detective novels and has always been proud that he has a detective brain, which is no worse than the protagonists in those detective novels.

In this way, he will be more similar to the famous detective Sherlock Holmes made up by Li Fan.

For this reason, Yalves finds it very novel and interesting. He, who is already a little bit old, is looking forward to the upcoming visitors!

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Starting in the afternoon, in major bookstores, the number of guests who came to purchase "The Sherlock Holmes Collection" was slowly increasing quietly.

A certain bookstore.

"Boss, Mr. Li Fan's "Sherlock Holmes", do you still have it in your bookstore?" a tall and thin customer asked, his voice seemed a little anxious.

"Yes, it's on the new bookshelf over there." The boss replied.

"Isn't there on the new bookshelf? Boss, are there other places? Quickly bring me a copy." The thin and tall customer said again, his voice seems even more anxious.

"Is there on the new bookshelf?" The boss looked in the direction of the new bookshelf in confusion, and was surprised to find that the place where the "Detective Sherlock Holmes" was originally placed was now empty, and it was really gone.

It seems that more than a dozen books are sold out on the bookshelf, and the boss is quite pleased. It seems that some people will buy it.

Afterwards, the boss asked a staff member to hurriedly go to the storeroom, put the "Detective Sherlock Holmes" on the new shelf, and handed a copy to the thin and tall customer by the way.

However, the staff replied that the 500 copies of "Detective Sherlock Holmes" that arrived in the store today have all been sold out.

"Already sold out?" The boss was taken aback for a moment, and then there was a burst of joy.

He originally thought that it would take a long time for 500 copies to be sold out, but he never thought that it would be sold out in less than a day.

Subsequently, the boss is preparing to say sorry to the thin and tall customer just now.

But after hearing the thin and tall customer say "Damn", he turned around and left the store in a hurry.

At this time, the boss felt that something was wrong.

The "Detective Sherlock Holmes", which was supposed to be sold for a long time, is now sold out, and the customer just now looks anxious to buy "Detective Sherlock Holmes".

Could it be that the book is very popular?

The boss's thoughts had just finished turning, and another spectacles customer hurriedly walked through the door.

As soon as he entered the door, he asked eagerly: "Boss, Mr. Li Fan's "Detective Sherlock Holmes", do you have it here?"

When another customer asked about the book, the boss was even more sure of what he had just thought.

It's just that the book has been sold out, and the boss can't help but regret it. He didn't make more money today. Now that he has money and can't make it, it is really depressing.

"Sorry, it's all sold out." The boss apologized and said to the spectacle customer who just came in.

When the spectacles customer heard it, he said "damn it" in disappointment, then turned to go out, and hurried away.

The two customers just now completely opened the customer to ask if there is a prelude to "Detective Sherlock Holmes".

After that, customers came to ask if there was any "Detective Sherlock Holmes"?

After being told that they were all sold out, they all turned around and left in a hurry.

Another customer came in and asked, and the boss couldn’t help asking: "My friend, may I ask, is "Detective Sherlock Holmes" very popular now?"

The customer replied: "Of course, I don't know when it started. There are more and more voices about Mr. Holmes on the Internet. They are all saying that if you don't know Mr. Holmes, it will be a great loss and regret. Because of this, I want to buy it so eagerly. Okay, boss, I'm leaving, I have to go to the next bookstore."

After that, the customer also hurried away, and he had to continue to the next bookstore. If he couldn't buy "The Sherlock Holmes" today, it is estimated that he would have difficulty falling asleep at night.

"If you don't know Mr. Holmes, it will be a great loss and regret?" The boss was surprised and hurried to the Internet, ready to see what happened.

Perhaps, he should have entered a large number of "Detective Sherlock Holmes".

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On the Internet, as the customer just said, there are more and more voices about Holmes.

Those who had just opened "The Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection" with the mentality of trying to read it, after reading it, they were also attracted by Holmes' personal charm very quickly and could not extricate themselves from it.

Especially after watching the second "Four Signatures".

If the "Study of the Words of Blood" is the first to show Sherlock Holmes, then "Four Signatures" will completely reveal Sherlock Holmes's personal charm.

In the previous life, the "Four Signatures" was a great success once it was launched.

It was the beginning of Sherlock Holmes becoming a household name.

Its influence is long-lasting and far-reaching, and it has won the love of readers at all levels.

Based on the appearance and details of life, the work uses imagination and experience, and uses subtle and impeccable logical reasoning to push it to terrifying and amazing inferences.

In this work, author Conan Doyle brings the tremendous power of human observation and logical reasoning to the extreme.

The main point of "Four Signatures" is that on July 7, 1887, a young lady named Mary Morstein went to 221b Baker Street to visit Sherlock Holmes, seeking Sherlock Holmes's help.

Mary told Holmes that her mother had died when she was very young, and her father was an officer of the Lan Army stationed abroad.

She has not seen her father for many years.

Later, her father took leave and returned to Lan. On December 3, 1878, Mary received a telegram from her father stating that he had arrived at a hotel in Longtown and asked Mary to come and see him.

However, when Mary rushed to the hotel that day and wanted to reunite her father and daughter, she was told by the hotel clerk that her father had left the day before her arrival and did not return.

After that, Mary tried her best to find her father.

Moreover, since that day, until now, Mary has not received any news about his father.

Major Shuerto was a veteran of the same regiment of Mary's father. Shuerto lived in Longtown when Mary's father disappeared.

Shulto died on April 28, 1882, four years after Mary's father disappeared.

After Schulto's death, that is, starting on May 4, 1882, Mary will receive an expensive pearl on the same date every year.

On July 7, 1887, that is today, Mary received an anonymous letter. The writer invited Mary to meet in a theater this evening.

And this is why Mary came to visit Holmes today for help. She wanted to ask Holmes and Watson to accompany her.

Because this letter may be related to an expensive piece of jewelry she receives every year.

Holmes and Watson agreed to Mary's request.

That night, after some twists and turns, Mary, Holmes, and Watson saw the anonymous letter writer.

The person who wrote anonymously is called Cediaus, the son of Shulto, who died four years ago.

It turned out that when Schulto returned to Longtown City that year, he brought back a large number of treasures, and Schulto also led a prosperous life with this treasure.

And in this batch of treasures, some should belong to Morstein, that is, Mary's father.

Four years ago, Mary's father returned to Longtown City and stayed in the hotel. After informing Mary to meet him in the hotel, he went to Shuerto's house and prepared to get back his treasure.

However, Mary's father and Shulto had a dispute over the distribution of the treasure, and a fierce quarrel occurred. During the quarrel, Mary's father suddenly died of a heart attack.

For some special reasons, Schulto concealed the news of Mary's father's death.

It was not until four years ago when Schulto was dying that he told his two sons the truth of the matter, saying that he had a treasure, one of which should belong to Mary's father.

Let her two sons find Mary and give Mary the treasure that should belong to her father.

However, his two sons, Saidius and Bartholomew, did not find the treasure, only a string of pearl collars, which Schulto said before his death, he was going to give to Mary.

In this way, Sediaus took down the pearl and prepared to send Mary a pearl a year.

This is why Mary receives a pearl on the same day every year.

However, just a day ago, Bartholomew finally discovered the treasures that his father Shuerto said.

Saidius said that he hoped to distribute part of the treasure to Mary to make up for the mistakes his father had committed.

Besides, it was originally what Mary deserved.

Bartholomew was a little unwilling, but in the end he reluctantly agreed.

However, when Sherlock Holmes, Watson, Mary, and Sadius arrived at Bartholomew’s residence, they found that Bartholomew had been murdered with a sting and the treasure had disappeared.

Then, after a series of complicated reasoning and tracking, Holmes finally caught up and captured the murderer who poisoned Bartholomew and snatched the treasure, Simao.

Then, Simao revealed the amazing secrets about that batch of treasures.

Simao used to be a soldier of the Lan Kingdom stationed abroad. For a number of reasons, he and three other fighters killed a servant of the earth king and snatched the treasure he brought.

Simao and the three fighters hid the looted treasure in a certain place, and were arrested and imprisoned for murder.

In the prison where the four people were held, Shulto and Mary's father was an officer in the prison at the time.

Simao reached an agreement with the two that if the two can help the four of them escape, the four of them are willing to share the treasure with the two.

In order to convince them of his words, Simao also told them the address of the treasure.

After discussing with Mary's father, Shuerto decides that Shuerto will go to the treasure spot that Smao said. Does it seem that there is a treasure?

However, after Shuerto went, he never went back. Instead, he took away the treasures alone, returned to Langdon, and lived a prosperous life.

At this point, all the truth is revealed.

When Schulto returned to Longtown, why did he bring back a lot of treasure?

Why did Mary's father go to Shuerto to divide the treasure and other questions, they have already answered.

After Smao tried his best to get out of prison, he poisoned Schultor's son Batholomew and robbed the treasure.

Obviously it was for revenge and to get back the treasure that should have belonged to him and the other three people.

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As soon as the story of "Four Signatures" came out, a group of detective fans became fans of Sherlock Holmes.

The charm of Sherlock Holmes continues to spread on the Internet.

On the Internet, there are more and more sayings that as a detective novel lover, if you don't know Sherlock Holmes, it will be a very regrettable thing.

Those who originally planned to resolutely not watch "Detective Sherlock Holmes" can no longer sit still.

They went to the bookstore one after another, preparing to buy a copy of "The Sherlock Holmes".

However, at this time they discovered that "Detective Sherlock Holmes" is no longer good to buy, and many bookstores are out of stock.

They had to run from bookstore to bookstore, hoping to buy one, which was the same as before.

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When it's nightfall, the sales of "Detective Sherlock Holmes" are increasing at an extremely fast rate.

Twenty thousand volumes, fifty thousand volumes, one hundred thousand volumes, two hundred thousand volumes...

Coxford Press.

It was time for get off work, but Evador was not in a hurry to leave, he was waiting for good news.

He knew that he would be coming soon.

Sure enough, the assistant rushed into his office and said excitedly: "Mr. Evador, according to incomplete statistics, the sales volume of Mr. Li Fan's "Detective Cases of Sherlock Holmes" has exceeded 200,000 copies so far. Moreover, it is increasing at an extremely fast rate."

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