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Title: The Valley of Fear

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: T. Walters, Tom Potter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-18

Publisher: One Media iP LTD

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Arthur Conan Doyle.

This dark tale details an early encounter between Holmes and Professor Moriarty. When Watson and Holmes receive a cipher warning them of evildoing, they're prompted to travel to Sussex, where they discover a corpse with its head blown to pieces.

Members Reviews:

Great Sherlock Holmes story

Absolutely perhaps the most entertaining Sherlock Holmes novel in my opinion. Faster paced than The Hound of the Baskervilles, more character depth than A Study in Scarlet, and as much a page-turner as The Sign of Four. For the Holmes purist, I think there is less deductive reasoning than some of the other stories, however the story itself appears more cohesive in some ways. I know I often put aside The Hound because it got a bit ponderous at times but TVoF kept my attention.

Captivating read!

Suspense!! Sherlock Holmes at its best. I love all Sherlock Holmes stories. The Valley of Fear is somewhat unique because it steps back and tells a whole story within a story. It is so captivating the reader is sure to have a hard time getting up in the morning for lack of sleep...

Give Fear a Chance

This is the least popular of ACD's four Sherlock Holmes novels, which I've never been able to understand: as somebody who's read and watched far too many mysteries and can usually predict the solutions to them fairly early in the running, I always remember getting surprised â twice! â in the course of "The Valley of Fear." Sir Arthur, as we all know, could get a bit wobbly on the details (Sherlock would've worn out his eyes rolling them at his biographer:-), but it takes extraordinary narrative coordination and finesse to pull off surprises in a novel without them seeming gimmicky; and they don't here. Give this volume a chance and it'll win you over â though in fairness, you should realize that â like "A Study in Scarlet," and even "The Hound of the Baskervilles" to an extent â Doyle sidelines Sherlock in favor of the deeper backstory behind the crime the Great Detective is investigating here. If you want 'all Sherlock, all the time,' really none of the novels will feed your need like the short stories do:-) But if you love good mysteries, "The Valley of Fear" definitely qualifies.

Holmes and Watson are called in

Mrs Holmes and Watson are passed a message from a spy in Prof. Moriarty's nest. Sherlock explains who the professor is, touching on Moriarty's publication 'The Dynamics of an Asteroid' (which is mentioned in another story worth reading as well, 'The Ultimate Crime',' I think Mr. Asimoz wrote it, and is included in "Another Round at the Spaceport Bar" edited by George Scithers & Darrell Schweitzer, © 1989). The message pertains to a crime to be committed, well here comes a detective, so the crime was carried out and Holmes and Watson are called in. Holmes figures it out while the police chase wild gooses, as usual.

This story has the arrangement Sir Doyle uses in a 'Study in Scarlet': the crime is solved, the story that preceded the crime is given, much as Mr. King does in some of his short (?) stories.

Told in two parts

In the first part of the book, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson arrive at a manor house to investigate the murder of the man of the house.