Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear

I have not read the original book by Holmes. Its a great story! I think the little sleuths will love the story. Every time I read a story about Holmes and Watson, I think about the kids who have read this story. How do they present the clues and how.will they solve it. These little questions keeps m......more

Most of what author Alex Woolf adapts for children are short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote. However — like A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles — The Valley of Fear is one of Conan Doyle’s novels (the last novel he wrote, in fact). Sadly, it’s the one I......more

I’ve always found this such an intriguing tale in Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Sherlock Holmes stories and it translates brilliantly over to a children’s book. There’s plenty of mystery, a murder, an evil foe and a brilliant consulting detective thrown into the mix. It’s entertaining and a great way......more

The Valley of Fear is a fun mystery book that takes Sherlock Holmes and Watson and places them in the middle of an unsolvable murder. Who was the person who died, who murdered them and what was the motive. Loved how this book was simple to read but yet was not a simple mystery to solve. Watson and H......more