Chapters 3 to 5 — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Chapters 3 to 5
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
The paper marked with the sign of the four, the cab through the fog to Thaddeus Sholto's house, his story of his father's guilt and the Agra treasure,
and the discovery of Bartholomew's body in the locked room at Pondicherry Lodge.
Key quotations: 'a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city', 'they flitted from the gloom into the light, and so back into the gloom once more', 'An oasis of art in the howling desert of South London', 'The cursed greed which has been my besetting sin through life', 'Keep him out! For Christ's sake keep him out!', 'selfishness took me by the soul', 'A wondrous subtle thing is love', 'So we stood hand-in-hand, like two children', 'There is something devilish in this, Watson', 'a fixed and unnatural grin', 'It means murder'.
Structure: Thaddeus's story within the story, and the turn from a missing father to a locked-room murder.
Setting: fog and gaslight on the Strand, the new suburbs south of the river, and the gloomy, dug-up grounds of Pondicherry Lodge.
