Review of 'The Valley of Fear (Complete Classics)' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
A most disappointing read...
Mass Market Paperback, 306 pages
English language
Published Nov. 30, 1991 by Penguin Books.
4 stars
(25 reviews)
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...
Review of 'The Valley of Fear\r\n \r\n Hard Case Crime Paperback' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I suspect the reason why this novel ranks last in popularity is because Holmes and Watson are absent from half of it, and even more so than in A Study in Scarlet. But the compelling nature of the setting Conan Doyle leaves them out of, and the memorable noir-western characters who inhabit it, are well worth their absence. A masterpiece!
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- 19th century fiction
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