The Valley of Fear. A Sherlock Holmes Novel

The English physician and writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is known throughout the world as an unsurpassed master of the detective genre, author of many works about the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal friend Dr. Watson. The classic translations of these stories and novels, made long ago by many different translators, suffer from known shortcomings: discrepancies, omissions, and outright errors. We present to you the second volume (the novel "The Valley of Fear", the collection "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes") from a four-volume set containing a complete translation of the entire Holmesian canon. This is a truly unique edition: all works in the cycle have been newly translated by Lyudmila Brilova and Sergey Sukharev — masters whose translations of Kazuo Ishiguro and Ray Bradbury, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Palliser, Thomas De Quincey, Herman Melville, and others have long become classics. Additionally, each volume includes a wealth of supplementary materials: prefaces to early publications, Conan Doyle's recollections concerning specific works, and some of the author's interviews. Plus, each volume is extensively annotated and richly illustrated with the best classic drawings. This book includes the complete set of illustrations that accompanied the original publication of "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Valley of Fear" in "The Strand Magazine" — by Sidney Paget and Frank Wiles, respectively.