On a rainy, windswept night, in a secluded stately home in Victorian England, Major John Sholto sits dining with his two sons, Thaddeus and Bartholomew. Outside, thunder and lightning shatter the sky, but inside all is quiet–at least at first. Suddenly the butler appears, bearing a sealed envelope left tacked to the front door. The Major opens the mysterious communication and extracts a note from within. He pales, then sputters incoherently and collapses in the arms of his startled sons. Major Sholto has glimpsed cold, unyielding death in the form of a scribble warning from the past… It is The Sign of the Four! Ian Richardson stars as Sherlock Holmes, the World’s Greatest Detective, in a spine-tingling mystery filled to the bloody brim with peg-legged killers, poisonous pygmies, boat chases, carnivals and sudden merciless extinction, all tied to a king’s ransom in jewels known as the Great Agra Treasure! With the faithful and resourceful Dr. Watson (David Healy) by his side and the beautiful Miss Mary Morstan (Cherie Lunghi), a delectable damsel in distress, it’s up to the human bloodhound known as Sherlock Holmes–with the help of a remarkable canine called Toby–to unravel the puzzle and find the stolen fortune before The Sign Of The Four claims yet another victim.
