“These dancing little figures are evidently a code.”

Published in 1915, The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel. It opens with Holmes receiving a mysterious cipher message from someone he knows to be an agent of Moriarty’s, which Holmes realises is warning him of a nefarious plot against a man named Douglas. Just moments later, he receives the news that Douglas was murdered the night before, news which sees him, accompanied by Dr, Watson, heading to the victim’s secluded country home to investigate.

But all is not as it seems. For the origins of this case lie in America, and involve a Pinkerton’s man and the doings of a terrible and secretive lodge...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859—1930) was born in Edinburgh, where he qualified as a doctor before going on to create Sherlock Holmes, one of the most vivid and enduring characters in English fiction. Holmes, whose talent for deduction was modelled on the skill of Doyle’s professor, Dr. Joseph Bell, first appeared in the full-length novel, A Study in Scarlet, in 1887. While Doyle wrote other works of fiction and non-fiction, none of those captured the public’s imagination in the same way as consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who have become one of the most well-known detective duos in literature.

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