Barker explains that Douglas married after arriving in England five years earlier. Holmes studies the window sill as MacDonald, White Mason, and Watson observe ( Strand, 1914)Īfter interviewing Cecil Barker, a frequent guest at Birlstone House and the man who discovered the body, they agree that suicide is out of the question, and that someone from outside the house committed the murder. The three men travel to Birlstone House to investigate. Some minutes later, Inspector MacDonald arrives at 221B Baker Street with news that Douglas was murdered the night before. Holmes deciphers the message as a warning of a nefarious plot against one Douglas, a country gentleman residing at Birlstone House. Sherlock Holmes receives a cipher message from Fred Porlock, a pseudonymous agent of Professor Moriarty. Doran Company in New York on 27 February 1915, and illustrated by Arthur I. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, and it was first published by George H. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle.
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