The Valley of Fear
1914 • 224 pages

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Even Sherlock Holmes, well-accustomed to the bizarre, finds the elements of this case unusual; the scene of the crime, a moated English country house; the wapon, a very American sawed-off shotgun; the bereaved, strangely dry-eyed; and the solution, backward in time and deep in a VALLEY OF FEAR...


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Like every other book. This one is one long story only, and as with previous ones, there is a story within a story.

This sub-story was too much for me. Again, nothing to do with Holmes, long, trivial and boring.

August 21, 2016

I really liked this one. The story consists of two parts. The first part tells a story of a murder of a rich english man that Sherlock Holmes tries to solve. The second part tells the tale of the valley of fear, a story that takes place in the USA a few years earlier.

December 27, 2021

That moat was worthless
rootin' tootin' face shootin'
assassins can swim.

August 1, 2017

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