Sherlock Holmes text returns to London after 125-year absence

US university loans first page of Arthur Conan Doyles The Sign of the Four to Holmes exhibition at Museum of London

The dinner in a London hotel, on an autumn night in 1889, was obviously a very good one: it resulted in two literary immortals, Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray, and a story which created the lasting fame of Conan Doyles brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes.

The first page of The Sign of the Four, the Holmes adventure which Doyle completed within a month of the dinner at the Langham hotel on 30 August, is to return to London on loan from an American university, to star in a major exhibition opening at the Museum of London.

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