As Hard Case’s Charles Ardai explains:
The pulp treatment isn’t wholly inappropriate, since The Valley of Fear isn't your typical Sherlock Holmes story. Written at the start of [World War I] rather than in the Victorian era, Valley is a muscular, dark, violent tale set largely in the U.S., about a private eye out of Chicago who sets out to clean up a crooked Pennsylvania mining town only to find himself on the run from supporters of the men he put in jail. When his pursuers chase him across the ocean to England and the sawed-off shotguns come out, even Sherlock Holmes can do only so much to keep them at bay.Sounds good. And the cover is among Hard Case Crime’s best.
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