Arthur Conan Doyles fourth and final Holmes-novel 'The Valley of Fear'
includes everything this. Just like all the other Holmes-novels ( part from
'The Hound of the Baskervilles' ) it contains two part: in the first part
Holmes and Watson are examining the tragedy of Birlstone. Mr. Douglas
has killed brutally in his home and police is confused. The second part
places in past and tells how everything have came to this point.
Novels language is a little bit obsolescent and so it little hard to read, especially if you english isn't good. That's why I recomend it to them who have read books in english before and who manages to use dictionary.
Many of the Sherlock Holmes -fans think that 'The Valley of Fear' is Conan Doyles best and I agree. It's the most exiting and darkest Holmes-story I have read. There Watson's narrators voice get its rights. It shows that Doyle's Watson isn't a bit dumb like in later movies; compared to Holmes everbody look little dim. There is also the only truly funny moment for which I quietly chuckled by myself; the moment when Holmes awake Watson and ask him if he would "be afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip". And in the end, well, everything aren't nicely and well.
Mark: 7-
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