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The Valley of Fear
Classic mystery
The Valley of Fear
Book 7 of the Sherlock Holmes series
A coded warning leads Holmes and Watson to a moated Sussex manor where a man appears to have been murdered with a shotgun. Strange evidence at the scene suggests that the victim's identity and the household's account cannot both be trusted. The investigation opens into an earlier story of an undercover operative infiltrating a violent secret society in an American mining valley. Dark and expansive, this final Holmes novel suits readers who enjoy country-house puzzles, criminal organizations, double lives, and mysteries whose past refuses to remain buried.
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Crime, danger, and death
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