The Valley of Fear

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480489769

<DIV><B>In the last of the Sherlock Holmes novels, the origins of his rivalry with Moriarty are revealed</B><BR /><BR />In London, there is a professor whose income runs to a modest &pound;700 a year, yet in his office hangs a painting worth no less than &pound;40,000. The author of a rarefied mathematical treatise on the dynamics of asteroids, he has twenty different bank accounts and a priestly manner that belies his vicious nature. His name is Moriarty, and he sits at the center of a vast and invisible web of crime. Years before their fateful meeting on the cliffs of the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes vows to put an end to the professor&rsquo;s secret reign of terror.<BR />&#160;<BR />A coded message from an informant on the inside of Moriarty&rsquo;s organization arrives at 221B Baker Street. No sooner than Holmes and Watson have deciphered the message&mdash;a warning that a man named Douglas of Birlstone Manor House is in grave danger&mdash;do they learn that Douglas is dead, his head blown off with an American shotgun. At a moated manor in the South of England, the dead man&rsquo;s widow and best friend hold the keys to a mystery that reaches all the way across the Atlantic and proves just how powerful Moriarty&rsquo;s fiendish influence has grown.<BR />&#160;<BR />This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and&#160;has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.<BR />&#160;</DIV>