The Valley of Fear is a dark, powerful tale, which provides the great detective with a most perplexing case and opens with a vile murder: Lying across his chest was a most curious weapon, a shotgun with the barrel sawn off in front of the triggers. It was clear that it had been fired at close range, and that he had received the whole charge in the face, blowing his head almost to pieces.
Sherlock Holmes' arch enemy, the
criminal genius Professor Moriarty, is back! But the solution to the
riddle, found after many surprising twists and high dramas, lies far
away, half across the world in a location known as 'The Valley of Fear'.
This is Conan Doyle's last Holmes novel and in the opinion of many of
his fans, it is the best!