# The Valley of Fear

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- Book: [The Valley of Fear](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-conan-doyle/the-valley-of-fear) ([The Valley of Fear.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-conan-doyle/the-valley-of-fear.md))
- Authors: [Arthur Conan Doyle](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-conan-doyle)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-695-8
- Published: 2008-03-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

From the annals of Dr Watson comes this dark tale of Sherlock Holmes’ early encounter with Professor Moriarty. When Holmes and Watson receive a cipher from one of Moriarty’s henchmen warning of dark doings at a manor house, they find themselves on the trail of a murderer. Almost immediately, they are on their way to Sussex where they discover a corpse with its head blown to pieces. But all is not as it seems. For the origins of this case lie in America, and involve a Pinkerton’s man and the doings of a terrible and secretive lodge ...