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The Valley of Fear [Large Print] (Hardcover)

by Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Grade 7 Up-A coded warning of imminent danger sends Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to the country house of the reclusive Jack Douglas. When they arrive too late to prevent a tragic death, they must follow bewildering clues and find a murderer.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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One of the four full-length novels starring Sherlock Holmes, the 19th-century sleuth and his cohort Dr. Watson must figure out who murdered a man in his own castle with an American sawed-off shotgun. 5 cassettes. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Valley Of Fear, April 3 2004
By T. C. jones (Pottsville, pa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Valley of Fear (Audio Cassette)
The story is a report on the actual events surrounding the arrest, conviction, and hanging of the Molly McGuyers in Schuylkill and Carbon Countys, Pennsylvania at the end of the 19th century. In the story the Mollys are like the gansters. In the Pa. coal region they are folk heros who fought and died for workers wrights. See the movie, "Molly McGuyers" staring Sean Conrey, it's an exact match.

The actual Pinkerton, McGowan, Died of old age in California.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Doyle, Jul 13 2003
This review is from: The Valley of Fear (Hardcover)
The last of the four Sherlock Holmes novels, and one of the two best. It contains more detection in its first section than The Hound of the Baskervilles, with Holmes (off-stage for much of The Hound) actively investigating the murder at Birlstone, and drawing his ever-fascinating deductions from raincoats and dumb-bells; indeed it is the only pure detective story among the four, with the reader given every opportunity to solve the crime. Although the solution is justly famous, it is but a variation on "The Norwood Builder," at much greater length. The second half of the tale concerns the doings of the Pinkerton agent Birdy Edwardes in the eponymous Valley, terrorised by the Freemasons, a gripping and powerful account which is perhaps of greater interest than the detection.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Marvelous Adaptation of Print to Audio, Jun 20 2000
By George R Dekle "Bob Dekle" (Lake City, FL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Valley of Fear: BBC (Audio Cassette)
Conan Doyle wrote The Valley of Fear in three parts: 1. The Tragedy of Birlstone. 2. A flashback to The Scowrers, and 3. An Epilogue. It had the effect of two separate books united by a commonality of characters and theme. The radio presentation took the tack of of interspersing scenes from The Tragedy of Birlstone with flashbacks to scenes from The Scowrers. One particularly dramatic segue came when the announcement of the murder of Jack Douglas followed immediately upon John McMurdo's oath never to betray the Scowrers on pain of death. I listen to audiobooks as I commute to work. This one made me late for work as I sat in the parking lot listening to the trapping of Birdy Edwards.
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