The Collins Classroom Classics - GCSE 9-1 set text student edition

Exam board: AQA
Level & Subject: GCSE English Literature
Next exam: June 2026
This edition of The Sign of Four is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms.
'Moonlight was streaming into the room, and it was bright with a vague and shifty radiance. Looking straight at me and suspended, as it were, in the air, for all beneath was in shadow, there hung a face...'
A mysterious letter, a missing father, stolen jewels and a man found dead in a locked room. Private detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr Watson have their work cut out in a case which takes them through the suburbs of south London, back in time to the forts and swamps of colonial India, and climaxes in a dramatic chase along the river Thames.
Arthur Conan Doyle's 1890 novel is the famous detective's second case.

About the author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most famous for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes and long-suffering sidekick Dr Watson. Conan Doyle was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.

Summary

Exam board: AQA Level & Subject: GCSE English Literature Next exam: June 2026

Product details

• Authors: Collins GCSE, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle
• Publisher: Collins Reference
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 14 to 16
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780008325954
• ISBN: 978-0-00-832595-4
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 178 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Collins Classroom Classics; Collins Classroom Classics
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Englisch; Lektüre, JUVENILE FICTION / Classics, English, EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Classics, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Interest age: from c 14 years, Crime & mystery fiction (Children's / Teenage), STUDY AIDS / Book Notes, For secondary education, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage), For National Curriculum Key Stage 4 & Gcse, Teachers' classroom resources & material, Teachers’ classroom resources and material, School editions of English literature fiction texts, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary, Children’s / Teenage: Crime & mystery fiction