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These infernal Scowrers, this cursed vindictive nest of criminals " "No, no, my good sir," said Holmes. "There is a master hand here. It is no case of sawed-off shot-guns and clumsy sixshooters. You can tell an old master by the sweep of his brush.
“Dear me, this is very disappointing! I fear, Wat-son, that all our expectations come to nothing. I trust that the man Porlock will come to no harm. “Dear Mr. Holmes [he says]: “I will go no further in this matter. It is too dangerous—he suspects me. I can see that he suspects me. He came to me quite unexpectedly after I had actu-
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Adapted by Nancy Timmins Activities by Eleanor Donaldson Crime The great detective Sherlock Holmes is needed to solve a murder in Sussex, England. A card with the initials VV 341 has been left by the body, and discovering the facts of the case gets ever more difficult. The answers to this mystery lie far away from the scene of the crime and across the Atlantic, in a place known as ‘The Valley of Fear’. Dossiers: Hiding PlacesSecret Societies
The "Valley of Fear" is both a physical place—Vermissa Valley, heart of the Pennsylvania coal mines—and a symbolic place. In the latter sense it is a psychological valley in which Douglas finds himself stuck with no means of escape. He is menaced and burdened by his fear and knows that he can never escape it.
The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes) Kindle Edition. In The Valley of Fear, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle creates an intricate mystery in which the protagonist, Sherlock Holmes, must solve a murder that has been committed by a member of the fictional order of Freemasons. The story is set in the early twentieth century and is full of complex codes and ...
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The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes novel by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the last of the four novels and the 47th of 60 tales overall of the Sherlock Holmes Canon. The story was originally serialized in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. It was first published in a single volume in February 1915 in the United States. The first British book edition was published in June of the same year. The novel is divided into two parts in a structure reminiscent
Chapter 1 – The Man. Chapter 2 – The Bodymaster. Chapter 3 – Lodge 341, Vermissa. Chapter 4 – The Valley of Fear. Chapter 5 – The Darkest Hour. Chapter 6 – Danger. Chapter 7 – The Trapping of Birdy Edwards. [Image source: Wikipedia] The Valley of Fear, was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and was first published in 1915 in the ...
