Charles Kerr

In 1890, the second Sherlock Holmes novel, The Sign of the Four, was published in February, 1890, in America's Lippincott's Magazine. It was not illustrated, and there was just a colored frontispiece. Later that same year, it was released in England. Again, only a frontispiece was included. It was a scene of Sherlock Holmes and Watson at Pondicherry Lodge, with the body of Bartholomew Sholto slumped in a chair. :Look at the nose on Holmes!

However, to be fair, this drawing was much better than the ones done by D.H. Friston and Charles Doyle for The Valley of Fear.

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