![]() ![]() ![]() There are a number of odd incidents and clues that do not add up. The victim had been shot in the face with an American sawed-off shotgun. ![]() But as far as I know that’s the only major slip up in Doyle’s narratives, so we can forgive him: he may have even been aware of the problem and decided to write this story as is anyway.Īt any rate, Holmes and Watson are interrupted by the arrival of a Scotland Yard Inspector MacDonald asking Holmes to assist on a case and then being stunned to learn that the message Holmes had just deciphered concerned the very man who had been killed. So this story predates that one, but there is a bit of a disconnect in that Watson didn’t know who Moriarty was in Memoirs, and if the events in The Valley of Fear occurred in the timeline before that book, Watson would surely have known the name. The only other time Moriarty has been mentioned was in the last chapter of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, in which he died. The book opens with Holmes and Watson trying to decipher a message from an informant concerning Professor Moriarty. Like most of his other stories, it first appeared serialized in a magazine, this time in The Strand. The Valley of Fear is the fourth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s full-length Sherlock Holmes novels. ![]()
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