The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle's The Valley of Fear (1914) is a Victorian mystery and adventure fiction novel. It takes readers to England and London in 20. Jahrhundert. It features Sherlock Holmes, Holmes, Sherlock (Personnage fictif) and John H. Watson. Readers will find themes of private investigators, roman policier anglais, John H. Watson and japanese language.
Open Library readers give it an average of 4.1 out of 5 from 29 ratings, and 230 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 758 editions across 11 languages. On Project Gutenberg it was downloaded 16,308 times in the last 30 days.
It runs to roughly 206 pages — 3–4 hours of reading at an average pace. It is in the public domain, so you can read it free on Project Gutenberg or listen to the 6 h 28 min LibriVox audiobook.
About The Valley of Fear
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...
Free audiobook
The Valley of Fear — LibriVox recording, 6 h 28 min in 15 sections.
Public-domain recording by volunteer readers. Listen online, download MP3s or stream from the Internet Archive.
Quick answers
Who wrote The Valley of Fear?
The Valley of Fear was written by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1914.
What genre is The Valley of Fear?
It is usually shelved as Victorian Mysteries and Adventure.
How long is The Valley of Fear?
The median edition has 206 pages, about 3–4 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
Is The Valley of Fear free to read?
Yes. It is in the public domain in the United States and can be read free on Project Gutenberg in EPUB, Kindle and HTML formats.
Is there a free audiobook of The Valley of Fear?
Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 6 h 28 min.
What books are similar to The Valley of Fear?
Readers who like it often enjoy A Study in Scarlet [graphic novel], The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories and The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [18 stories].
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