So this story predates that one, but there is a bit of a disconnect in that Watson didn’t know who Moriarty was in Memoirs, and if the events in The Valley of Fear occurred in the timeline before that book, Watson would surely have known the name. The only other time Moriarty has been mentioned was in the last chapter of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, in which he died. The book opens with Holmes and Watson trying to decipher a message from an informant concerning Professor Moriarty. Like most of his other stories, it first appeared serialized in a magazine, this time in The Strand. The Valley of Fear is the fourth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s full-length Sherlock Holmes novels.
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