"A Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle - "Tarry at the Taft", New York - Compliments of the Hotel Taft New York - 15cmx13cm - ca 1925 first thus American edition - condition: good, in original publisher's binding with Art Deco design on orange cloth depicting the hotel, some wear to spine linings, Hotel Taft lay-in present. Extremely rare giveaway edition by the famous New York Hotel Taft, desirable for its binding, and almost impossible to find nowadays. The Sign of the Four, also called The Sign of Four, is an 1890 detective novel, and it is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective.