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The Valley of Fear

#4 in Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Published1914
Pages220
Open Library4.1 / 5
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Even Sherlock Holmes, well-accustomed to the bizarre, finds the elements of this case unusual; the scene of the crime, a moated English country house; the wapon, a very American sawed-off shotgun; the bereaved, strangely dry-eyed; and the solution, backward in time and deep in a VALLEY OF FEAR...

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  • Sherlock Holmes (Fictitious character)
  • Holmes, Sherlock (Personnage fictif)
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • John H. Watson (Fictitious character)
  • Dr. Watson

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  • 20. Jahrhundert
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