Me reading through Sherlock Holmes library for the first time (with the exception of hound of the Baskerville’s which I’ve read before): Strange. The mystery has been resolved but there’s still a good chunk of the book left
The villain: As you’ve bested me, mister Holmes and these constables shall surely take me to the scaffold, please let me tell you my humble life story in great detail.
Yeah it’s fairly good. I think it works better in A study in Scarlet than in The Sign Of Four. But then A Study on Scarlet has more of a standard detective structure where you have to piece together the clues of the crime whereas The Sign Of Four seems less interested in having a puzzle to solve and more excited in having a chase.
These are adventures, most of the stories are a wild ride as Sherlock does his thing. You should read The Red-Headed League. That one has a silly puzzle that you could figure out
The Sign of Four was my least favorite out of all his novels for that reason. I do love the exposition dumps though.