"Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her."
Deciphering a coded message from an agent of his arch-nemesis Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes discovers a warning of imminent danger for the owner of Birlstone Manor House. Several minutes later, an inspector from Scotland Yard appears with the news that John Douglas of Birlstone had been murdered just the night before. With Watson by his side, Holmes sets off to the countryside to uncover the perpetrator of this grisly crime.
The final full-length novel featuring Holmes and Watson, The Valley of Fear was first published in 1915. A tale told in two parts, Arthur Conan Doyle has carefully crafted the elements of the story to inspire terror and fear in the reader.
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