The Valley of Fear
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Ulverscroft series
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781444808063
Subjects: Fiction; Private investigators
Description: In THE TRAGEDY OF BIRLSTONE, Holmes receives a coded message, from Porlock, 'the weak link in a chain leading to the controlling brain of the underworld' - Professor Moriarty. Holmes and Watson decipher the message as indicating that a man named Douglas, residing at Birlstone, is in danger. Then, assisting Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard, Holmes learns that Mr Douglas of Birlstone Manor has been murdered - however, the body belongs to another man. Then we read, in THE SCOWRERS, the intriguing account of the man whose body it should have been ...