The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

"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.)

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Author Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
Title The Valley of Fear
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Valley_of_Fear
Credits Produced by David Brannan and David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 82.7 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Subject Private investigators -- England -- Fiction
Subject Detective and mystery stories
Category Text
eBook-No. 3289
Release Date
Last Update Aug 10, 2025
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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