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!
You slipped up there, Mr. Holmes, clever as you are; for if you had chanced to
take off that plaster you would have found no cut underneath it. “Well, that was
the situation. If I could lie low for a while and then get away where I could be
joined by my 'widow' we should have a chance at last of living in peace for the
rest of our lives. These devils would give me no rest so long as I was above
ground; but if they saw in the papers that Baldwin had got his man, there would
be an end of all my ...
The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is based on the supposedly real-life exploits of the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, published by George H. Doran Company in New York on 27 February 1915, and illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. Holmes decodes a cipher warning from Moriarty's organization for "Douglas" in "Birlstone", but a corpse is there already. When Mr. Douglas blows the head off his American assassin, he dresses the body as himself, and hides, to throw off the chase for good. Holmes guesses the missing dumb-bell weighted down the killer's clothes in the moat. The calling card left, VV341, is Vermissa Valley Lodge 341. Decades ago for Pinkerton, he went months undercover, first with Freemen in Chicago, then west to desolate mountain coal mine area, to take down corrupt murderers who ran the Valley Freemen Lodge, but criminals pursued. Holmes warns Douglas, when acquitted, to flee England. But Moriarty prevails. The second Mrs. Douglas telegrams that her husband was lost overboard on his way to South Africa on a ship.
"Maybe youare ina humourfor a fight, Mr. Boarder!" "That Iam!" criedMcMurdo,
springing tohis feet."You never saida morewelcome word." "For God's sake, Jack!
Oh, for God's sake!" cried poor, distracted Ettie."Oh, Jack, Jack, he will hurt you!" "
Oh, it'sJack, is it?" said Baldwin withan oath."You've come to that already, have
you?" "Oh, Ted, be reasonable--be kind! For my sake, Ted, if ever you loved me,
be big-hearted and forgiving!" "I think,Ettie, that if you were to leave us alone we
could ...
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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 ...
An engaging classroom playscript. John Douglas is a man with a past. Sherlock Holmes is the famous detective who finds puzzle-solving elementary. When Holmes and his faithful friend Watson are summoned to the country to investigate Douglas's murder, it begins to look as though the past might finally have caught up with him New, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English and help students to fulfil the Framework objectives. Activities include work on Speaking and Listening, close text analysis, and the structure of playscripts, and act as a springboard for personal writing.
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