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  • Published: 28 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141916958
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

The Valley of Fear





The final Sherlock Holmes novel links a gruesome murder in England to strange and violent events in the United States

From the annals of Dr Watson comes this dark tale of Sherlock Holmes’ early encounter with Professor Moriarty. When Holmes and Watson receive a cipher from one of Moriarty’s henchmen warning of dark doings at a manor house, they find themselves on the trail of a murderer.

Almost immediately, they are on their way to Sussex where they discover a corpse with its head blown to pieces. But all is not as it seems. For the origins of this case lie in America, and involve a Pinkerton’s man and the doings of a terrible and secretive lodge ...

  • Published: 28 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141916958
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

About the author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student. Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887).

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