The Valley of Fear
This is the fourth and last novel of the iconic detective character Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective.
252 páginas. Rústica con solapas. 15 x 21,6 cm. Drakul.
Synopsis
Sherlock Holmes receives an encrypted letter from a certain Porlock associated with Professor Moriarty, the organizer of many crimes. The great detective must solve a mysterious murder in England, but discovers that this is only the tip of the iceberg which leads to another story in Vermissa Valley in the United States.
Biography of the author
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859 –1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the Mary Celeste.
He was given the rank of Knight Bachelor by King Edward VII in the 1902 Coronation Honours.