The Sign of Four (Part 1): The Crime of the Morstans

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Canon Story: The Sign of Four (Part 1)
Title: The Crime of the Morstans
Author: Mary Sutherland
Rating: PG-13


"I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money" – Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four, Chapter 2.

Miss Morstan was not a poisoner and yet she was that most dangerous of criminals - a thief. I knew long before I observed Watson and her holding hands that she had robbed me of him. Her triumph was surely inevitable; she could give Watson the love that I could not offer without being branded the most degenerate of criminals.