 First edition (US) | |
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Sherlock Holmes |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | George H. Doran Company |
Publication date | 1915 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Preceded by | The Return of Sherlock Holmes |
| Followed by | His Last Bow |
| Text | The Valley of Fear at Wikisource |
The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland.[1] The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, and it was first published by George H. Doran Company in New York on 27 February 1915, and illustrated by Arthur I. Keller.[2]
- ^ Klinger, Leslie (ed.). The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume III (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006). p. 631. ISBN 978-0393058000
- ^ Doyle, Arthur Conan (October 1979). John Murray (ed.). The Sherlock Holmes Omnibus (2nd Illustrated ed.). ISBN 978-0719536915.