The Valley of Fear (Cambridge Scholars Publishing Classics Texts) - Softcover

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847189849 ISBN 13: 9781847189844

Publisher: CSP Classic Texts, 2008

Synopsis

The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes novel whose unusually wide sweep takes in the Victorian English countryside and the cut-throat world of noneteenth-century American frontier towns.

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About the Author:

Arthur (later Sir Arthur) Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh on 22 May, 1859. He studied medicine in his home city but also started publishing short stories while a student. After practising as a ship's doctor and in Plymouth, he settled in Portsmouth as a GP. He returned to writing to bolster his income, having his first success with A Study in Scarlet in 1887, also his first work to feature Sherlock Holmes, modelled on a former university professor. Conan Doyle found the runaway popular success of this character a hindrance to his desire to write more serious historical novels thereafter, however, and famously killed him off before yielding to public demand to continue writing Holmes stories. His other fiction includes some notable science fiction including The Lost World, historical novels and other mystery and crime stories. Conan Doyle also concerned himself with criminal justice, the Boer War and, after suffering from depression later in life, defending the Spiritualist religion. He died of a heart attack on 7 July, 1930.

About this edition

• Publisher: CSP Classic Texts
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1847189849
• ISBN 13: 9781847189844
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148