by Conan Doyle · Cluster: Detective Fiction · Ratiocination Detection · Crime and Punishment
Abstract
The final Sherlock Holmes novel: a coded warning from Moriarty’s informant Porlock leads Holmes and Watson to the murder of John Douglas at Birlstone House. A flashback second part reveals Douglas’s past among the Scowrers, a murderous secret society in the Vermissa Valley coalfields of Pennsylvania.
Capitoli / Chapters
- Chapter 1: The Warning
- Chapter 2: Sherlock Holmes Discourses
- Chapter 3: The Tragedy of Birlstone
- Chapter 4: Darkness
- Chapter 5: The People of the Drama
- Chapter 6: A Dawning Light
- Chapter 7: The Solution
- Chapter 1: The Man
- Chapter 2: The Bodymaster
- Chapter 3: Lodge 341, Vermissa
- Chapter 4: The Valley of Fear
- Chapter 5: The Darkest Hour
- Chapter 6: Danger
- Chapter 7: The Trapping of Birdy Edwards
Connections
Forms & Genres: Detective Fiction, Novel Themes & Concepts: Ratiocination Detection, Crime and Punishment, Justice Right and Wrong, Secrecy and Concealment, Deception, Greed and Money, Economics Motifs: Letters and Writing, City, Concealment Hidden Identity, Money and Gold Settings: London, Industrial City Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson, Professor Moriarty Archetypes: Detective, Villain
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