Classics Illustrated #21 [HRN 114]

In "The Sign of the 4," Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into a mystery when Miss Mary Morstan seeks their help about her father’s disappearance, a strange invitation, and a trail of pearls. With the aid of Inspector Jones and Holmes’s loyal bloodhound Toby, they follow clues to Bartholomew Sholto’s estate, where a murdered man and a stolen treasure point to a long-buried secret from India. As Holmes and Watson pursue the elusive Jonathan Small and his accomplice Tonga, the past begins to catch up with them in deadly ways.

Peter shows his friends a flayed hand from a long-dead murderer, a grim relic of Henry Matson’s violent past. When the boys warn him the killer’s spirit might return, Peter dismisses them—until that night, when the hand moves on its own and the dead man’s vengeance takes hold.