{"product_id":"doyle-valley-of-fear-1914-memories-1924","title":"The last Sherlock Holmes novel — the first edition of The Valley of Fear, with Conan Doyle's autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Valley of Fear is the fourth and last of the Sherlock Holmes novels — a two-part drama that opens with a cipher and a murder at Birlstone Manor and unfolds, in its second half, into a Pinkerton agent's infiltration of a murderous secret society in the Pennsylvania coal-fields, drawn from the real history of the Molly Maguires. Professor Moriarty presides, unseen, over the whole. The New York Doran edition of 1914 precedes the London first of 1915.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is joined here by Memories and Adventures — the book in which Conan Doyle tells where Sherlock Holmes came from. The detective, he explains, was modelled on Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, whose uncanny readings of a stranger from a single glance Doyle used and amplified when, in later life, he tried to build up a scientific detective who solved cases on his own merits and not through the folly of the criminal. Here too he recalls naming his cast and writing A Study in Scarlet [Green \u0026amp; Gibson; Memories and Adventures, ch. 3].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo works in publisher's cloth stamped in gilt. The Valley of Fear, New York: George H. Doran, 1914; Memories and Adventures, Boston: Little, Brown, 1924.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good: minor wear and scuffing to the cloth; hinges tender or cracked; a bookseller's sticker; faint stains to the edges of the text-blocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePROVENANCE\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBookseller's sticker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eREFERENCES\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreen \u0026amp; Gibson, A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051250696380,"sku":null,"price":375.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/1285\/3436\/files\/611196_l.jpg?v=1783095815","url":"https:\/\/atelierzweig.com\/products\/doyle-valley-of-fear-1914-memories-1924","provider":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}