How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 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 ...
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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Valley of Fear. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Arthur Conan Doyle, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Valley of Fear: Our second post is now overdue, and I shall be surprised if it does not bring us either a further letter of explanation, or, as is more probable, the very volume to which these figures refer. ...It was remarked sometimes, however, by those who knew them best, that the confidence between the two did not appear to be complete, since the wife was either very reticent about her husbands past life, or else, as seemed more likely, was imperfectly informed about it. ...In age he was rather younger than Douglas-forty-five at the most-a tall, straight, broad-chested fellow with a clean-shaved, prize-fighter face, thick, strong, black eyebrows, and a pair of masterful black eyes which might, even without the aid of his very capable hands, clear a way for him through a hostile crowd. ... He was cordial and intimate with Douglas, and he was no less friendly with his wife-a friendship which more than once seemed to cause some irritation to the husband, so that even the servants were able to perceive his annoyance. ...And now, my long-suffering readers, I will ask you to come away with me for a time, far from the Sussex Manor House of Birlstone, and far also from the year of grace in which we made our eventful journey which ended with the strange story of the man who had been known as John Douglas.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Arthur Conan Doyle, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today.
Supernatural hounds, a family curse, a mysterious cipher and the return of a deadly enemy . . . Sherlock Holmes will have to utilize every skill he has to solve the two classic mysteries collected here. The Hound of the Baskervilles sees Holmes and Dr Watson travel to the misty wilds of Dartmoor to confront a devilish apparition, while in The Valley of Fear the pair investigate a gruesome murder that may be the work of the dastardly Professor Moriarty himself. In this Macmillan Collector's Library edition, Sherlock scholar David Stuart Davies provides both an illuminating afterword and a fascinating chronology of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
The Hound of the Baskervilles sees Holmes and Dr Watson travel to the misty wilds of Dartmoor to confront a devilish apparition, while in The Valley of Fear the pair investigate a gruesome murder that may be the work of the dastardly ...
The last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written. Some of the sharpest turns of wit in English literature are contrasted by dark images of psychological tragedy, suicide, and incest in a collection oftales that have haunted generations of readers.
A new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's two-part Sherlock Holmes novel, "The Valley of Fear."
A new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's two-part Sherlock Holmes novel, "The Valley of Fear."
A mystery that entangles the mind The Valley of Fear is a fraction of Sherlock Holmes series. Full of suspense and ambiguity, the story revolves around the mysterious murder case of Douglas which is resolved very astutely by Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson. The civil corruption of North America has also been highlighted in this novel. Spine-chilling!
all, and I have no right to stand in the way of it. I'd only ask you not to worry Mrs.
Douglas over this matter; for she has enough upon her just now. I may tell you
that poor Douglas had just one fault in the world, and that was his jealousy. He
was fond of me – no man could be fonder of a friend. And he was devoted to his
wife. He loved me to come here, and was forever sending for me. And yet if his
wife and I talked together or there seemed any sympathy between us, a kind of
wave of ...
