The Valley of Fear and Selected Cases
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Valley of fear
Selected cases from The return of Sherlock Holmes:
[Adventure of the Empty House](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518119W/The_Adventure_of_the_Empty_House)
[Adventure of the Dancing Men](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262417W/The_Dancing_Men)
Adventure of Black Peter
[Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20621973W/Adventure_of_Charles_Augustus_Milverton)
[Adventure of the Six Napoleons](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20628495W)
[Adventure of the Abbey Grange](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17084226W/Adventure_of_the_Abbey_Grange)
From His last bow:
Adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans
Adventure of the dying detective
Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
His last bow
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10 primary books37 released books#7 in Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a 37-book series with 37 released primary works first released in 18 with contributions by Arthur Conan Doyle, Peter Haining, and Arthur Conan Doyle OL161167A.
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I've been having a good time reading through the major Sherlock Holmes works. The short stories and the novels are fun mysteries, though I see more similarities in plots as I go along.
None of them have been quite as impressive to me as the first one, Study in Scarlet, so far. Valley of Fear is the closest to it in structure. There is a seemingly baffling murder, connected to a backstory that is told by a narrator who isn't Watson.
My only reservation about this one is the inclusion of Moriarty as a string-puller in the plot. I realize there must have been some audience expectation to include Moariaty but it feels forced.
This was always my least favorite of the Holmes novels, and remains so. Fry's American accent for the Pennsylvania portion sometimes slips, but it's totally forgivable and I still love his performance.
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