Length6h 20m
About this audiobook
A Locked Room. A Brutal Murder. A Code That Unlocks a Past Steeped in Blood.
When a cryptic warning arrives at 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes knows a game is afoot. But the stakes are far higher than he anticipates. The message leads him to Birlstone Manor, where the American master of the house, John Douglas, has been found savagely murdered in a study bolted from the inside. The victim's face is obliterated by a sawn-off shotgun, a mysterious card lies nearby, and the case presents itself as the perfect locked-room mystery.
Holmes, with his inimitable precision, dissects the staged scene. A missing dumb-bell, a peculiar tattoo, and the shadow of a secret society point not to a random act of violence, but to a meticulously planned execution. As the detective follows the trail, the investigation rips open a decades-old wound, forcing Watson to narrate a second, terrifying story: the dark and violent history of the 'Valley of Fear' in the American coalfields, where the power of a murderous secret brotherhood known as the Scowrers held an entire community in its grip.
In The Valley of Fear, Arthur Conan Doyle constructs his most ambitious and structurally daring Sherlock Holmes novel. It is a diptych of crime: a classic English country house puzzle seamlessly fused with a raw, frontier tale of gangsterism and vengeance. For the true devotee of the genre, this is a masterwork, exploring the indelible links between a past crime and a present murder, and proving that the most deadly traps are often set years in advance. Prepare for a chilling lesson: in the world of organized terror, no one ever truly escapes.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length6 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1By the same author in Cactus catalogue:
2PART 1—The Tragedy of Birlstone
3Chapter 1—The Warning
4Chapter 2—Sherlock Holmes Discourses
5Chapter 3—The Tragedy of Birlstone
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6Chapter 4—Darkness
7Chapter 5—The People of the Drama
8Chapter 6—A Dawning Light
9Chapter 7—The Solution
10PART 2—The Scowrers
11Chapter 1—The Man
12Chapter 2—The Bodymaster
13Chapter 3—Lodge 341, Vermissa
14Chapter 4—The Valley of Fear
15Chapter 5—The Darkest Hour
16Chapter 6—Danger
17Chapter 7—The Trapping of Birdy Edwards
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