The Valley of Fear - The Strand Magazine Original Wrapper Issues

The Strand Magazine, Original 9 Parts, a consecutive run from September 1914 to May 1915. Complete with all Wrappers and Adverts, with thirty-one illustrations by Frank Wiles internally clean and very good, complete, rare—rarer in parts than any of the preceding Holmes stories in Strand (the publication numbers decreased drastically as the 20th century progressed).

The First Appearance Anywhere of the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel, delving into American union activities, the Pinkertons and the conflicts between the two. Doyle crafted The Valley of Fear as “two parts and a coda”. The novel has a number of major themes, including “problems of ethical ambiguity”, and attempts to comment seriously on terrorist activity as profiled by American union struggles. Critics have shown how the American union struggles deal with similar issues in the contemporary political situation in Ireland.