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Book at Bedtime: Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear

Ian McKellen

Arthur Conan Doyle

Neville Teller

Gemma McMullan

Book at Bedtime: Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear: Episode 1

Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear, Episode 1

A cipher message warns Sherlock that someone in Birlstone is in imminent danger.

Sherlock decrypts a cipher message and discovers someone in the village of Birlstone is in immediate danger.

The Valley of Fear, the last of the four Sherlock Holmes novels, ranks among Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's best work. The mystery begins with a coded warning of imminent danger, drawing the illustrious Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Dr. Watson to a secluded English country home. A trail of bewildering clues leads to sleuthing in the finest Holmesian tradition and the gripping backstory of a cult that terrorized a valley in the American West.

Reader ..... Sir Ian McKellen
Abridger ..... Neville Teller
Producer ..... Gemma McMullan.

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Adaptation of the last of the four Sherlock Holmes novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The last of the four Sherlock Holmes novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read by Sir Ian McKellen. Abridged by Neville Teller.

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