The Valley of Fear is an interesting read, where the plot expands beyond Victorian England and started in America, citing a real detective agency Pinkerton during the American Civil War, where a detective infiltrated a trade union functioning as a front for a gang of criminals. This plot is entirely transplantable into a movie set in today.
It seems from this story that Doyle has more pride of England compared to America since the detective had to leave America altogether to restart his life in England, when perhaps there might have been a greater outflow of population from England to America during that period.
The illustration on the cover depicted fired sawed-off shotguns, which initially I had no idea what those black sticks with orange flares were...
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