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The Valley of Fear
- 206 pages · about 3 hours
- First published 1915
- 758 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The backstory is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, and it was first published by George H. Doran Company in New York on 27 February 1915, and illustrated by Arthur I. Keller.
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Good for readers who want: a mystery, adventure, and a book they can read free online.
- Mystery
- Private investigators
- Private investigators in fiction
- Mystery & detective, traditional
- Adventure
- Professor Moriarty
- John H. Watson
- Children's fiction
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