The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle
1859 – 1930
ENPublic Domain
Summary
"The Valley of Fear" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a novel first published in 1915. In this fourth Sherlock Holmes mystery, the detective receives a coded warning about a plot against a country gentleman named Douglas. When Holmes arrives to investigate, he discovers Douglas has been murdered at his moated manor house. The case leads to dark secrets involving American coal miners, a corrupt trade union, and the dangerous Professor Moriarty. Holmes must unravel a mystery that spans two continents and threatens more lives. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Subjects
- Detective and mystery stories
- Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) — Fiction
- Private investigators — England — Fiction