The Valley of Fear (Headline Review Classics)

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Paperback, 213 pages

English language

Published April 1, 2007 by Headline Book Publishing.

ISBN:: 978-0-7553-3451-3
OCLC Number:: 74967547

(35 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...

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2 stars

A most disappointing read...

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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!