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The Valley of Fear

by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

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  • 4 hours to read
  • 15 chapters
  • Reading level: 6th grade

"The Valley of Fear" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a novel first published in 1915. When Sherlock Holmes receives a coded warning about danger to a country gentleman named Douglas, he arrives too late—Douglas has been murdered at his moated manor house. As Holmes investigates the puzzling crime scene, he uncovers connections to a secret society and a dangerous past in America's coal mining valleys, where violent men pursued deadly vengeance under the shadow of Professor Moriarty.

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  • Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)
  • Private investigators · England
  • Detective and mystery stories

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Part 1 — The Tragedy of Birlstone

Chapter

1 The Warning
2 Sherlock Holmes Discourses
3 The Tragedy of Birlstone
4 Darkness
5 The People Of the Drama
6 A Dawning Light
7 The Solution

The Warning

"I am inclined to think—" said I.

"I should do so," Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

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Contents

  1. Part 1 — The Tragedy of Birlstone
  2. Part 1 — The Tragedy of Birlstone
  3. Chapter 2
  4. Chapter 3
  5. Chapter 4
  6. Chapter 5
  7. Chapter 6
  8. Chapter 7
  9. Part 2
  10. Chapter 1
  11. Chapter 2
  12. Chapter 3
  13. Chapter 4
  14. Chapter 5
  15. Chapter 6
  16. Chapter 7
  17. Epilogue

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About this edition

This free edition of The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #3776, released 2003-02-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery, Novels, British Literature.

Other editions: eBook #3289 (most read).

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