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In The Valley of Fear, Arthur Conan Doyle returned to a theme he had explored in his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, namely, the linkages between crimes in London and events occurring elsewhere in the world. The precipitating events of these two novels occurred in the United States. A Study in Scarlet revolves around the emergence of Mormonism in Utah, and The Valley of Fear builds upon the Molly Maguires episode in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. However, there was a noticeable change of tone between the earlier work, written in 1887, and the later work, Doyle’s last Holmes novel, written on the eve of the war in Europe, then serialized in The Strand after the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914.
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Gregg, R. (2007). Valleys of fear: Policing terror in an imperial age, 1865–1925. In: Grant, K., Levine, P., Trentmann, F. (eds) Beyond sovereignty. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230626522_9
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