![]() ![]() The historical impetus behind the plot of The Valley of Fear was the real confrontation between the Pinkerton Detective Agency and members of an Irish secret society known as the Molly Maguires who had emigrated to Pennsylvania. This places the reader across the Atlantic Ocean and firmly on the solid ground of actual American history. Like A Study in Scarlet, one of the more famous Holmes tales, The Valley of Fear features a flashback section inserted after Holmes has put his deductive power to work solving the mystery. It is the only Holmes tale to deal directly with Irish issues. The manuscript, 176 folio pages with Doyle’s deletions and revisions, shows that Watson was not intended to be the original narrator. A book form followed the British serialization in 1915. ![]() Arthur Conan Doyle published The Valley of Fearin serial form in Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. ![]()
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