The Valley of Fear

Overview:

  • Title: The Valley of Fear
  • Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Year: 1915
  • Publisher: George H. Doran
  • Price: $1.25
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Valley of Fear
  • Notes:
    Unknown source for date An advertisement published that day, Detroit Free Press 1915-02-27 p5, by local retailer Macauley's: "A. Conan Doyle's great Sherlock Holmes novel now ready in book form. $1.25, by mail $1.85."

    Only two earlier notices found 2019-03-07 in 1915 US daily newspapers: N-Y Tribune 1915-01-23 p10 notes this novel "put down for publication in March"; NY Times -02-21 pBR68 "News of Books" covers "fiction that will be due before the Winter ends. For the 1st of March [Doran] promises new novels ...", this one and another. It continues, on the same date the Dorans will publish novels ...".