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The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel - Community Reviews back

by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The better to see you, my dear
The better to see you, my dear rated it 6 years ago
Despite never having read this one before, I called it soon enough. Second part, as is par for course with Holmes novels MO, was a narration of the history (on a far place and piquant circumstances for the edifice of London society), spawning the issues at present. Was mislead nicely for a bit, bu...
Themis-Athena's Garden of Books
Themis-Athena's Garden of Books rated it 8 years ago
Reading: Let the dreidel choose a book for you: נ Nun (miracle): Christopher Paolini - Eldest (audio version read by Kerry Shale) ג Gimel (great): Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley of Fear (audio version read by Simon Vance) ה He (happened): Ian Rankin - Even Dogs in the Wild ש Shin (there, i.e. Isra...
rameau's ramblings
rameau's ramblings rated it 9 years ago
...well. I did skim the second half of the second story. So, 75% words read. And yet, I only remember this one quote clearly. From page 81: "'Well, Holmes,' I murmured, 'have you found anything out?' He stood beside me in silence, his candle in his hand. Then the tall, lean figure inclined to...
A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it 9 years ago
I'm not sure what I was expecting, with the exception of 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', the Holmes novels have left me cold and I grow increasingly disenchanted with the short stories. The setup is Holmes and Watson trekking up North to solve a murder that was predicted by some information given o...
Bry's Bountiful Book Blog
Bry's Bountiful Book Blog rated it 11 years ago
I have quite enjoyed every Sherlock Holmes story that I have read, and this one was no exception. I will say, however, that I found myself a little disappointed at the end of the novel that we weren't going to get to see a bit more of a conflict between Holmes and Moriarty, which is what I thought t...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: winter-20102011, classic, mystery-thriller, published-1915, bullies, britain-england, gangsters, revenge Read from January 05 to 06, 2011 Revenge and treachery link a Sussex country house with the secret societies of 1890s America. With Clive Merrison as Holmes. "
Bayard's Books
Bayard's Books rated it 11 years ago
I have been on a Sherlock Holmes spree for the past couple of weeks. I have watched probably 10 movies and am in the process of reading every story that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote about Holmes. While Holmes (almost) always solves his case, the stories never seem to grow monotonous. Sir Art...
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd rated it 11 years ago
This is the forth and final of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes long stories (which means that I can now return one of my Sherlock Holmes omnibus' to my Dad – all I have to do now is read through the rest of the short stories, which I am sure to some time) and seems to run along the same structure as the fir...
richardbrockbank1
richardbrockbank1 rated it 12 years ago
A good, at times gripping, story featuring the famous detective and the first (brief) mentions of Moriarty, his arch-enemy. As with most of Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes stories, I was disappointed by what I feel is a certain blankness (characters and locations often not adequately described, and a ge...
Meandering Em's
Meandering Em's rated it 12 years ago
I usually read the short stories about Sherlock Holmes and after reading two of Doyle's novellas, I have to say I prefer his short stories. I recently read A Study in Scarlet where Doyle is introduced to the reader. This book follows the same format as A Study in Scarlet. Holmes solves the myster...
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