Oxford Playscripts: The Valley of Fear

John Douglas is a man with a past. Sherlock Holmes is the famous detective who finds puzzle-solving elementary. When Holmes and his faithful friend Watson are summoned to the country to investigate Douglas's murder, it begins to look as though the past might finally have caught up with him.

Features

• Exciting adaptations of modern and classic novels, and a range of original plays
• Motivating activities focusing on performance, close text analysis, language and structure, together with varied creative tasks
• Insights into the plays by the authors and adaptors
• Notes on props and staging