The second of the four main Sherlock novels, published a couple of years after the first. Holmes and Watson now presented as established companions and some strong hints of Holmes' self destructive nature for stimulants and drugs to fuel his over active brain.
The case he has to solve is actually presented as a break from such behaviour. The client Miss Morstan also appears to be a rather weak romantic link for Watson - Holmes being far too clinical to ever consider a client as anything other than a part of the puzzle.
The story of a murder as with the first novel unravels to far away places, this time India - probably a much easier subject for the author to write about compared to America in the first novel. The novel is well paced, but you can see some bits coming given the subsequent ubiquitous nature of Holmes in later stories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sign_of_the_Four
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