{"id":204,"date":"2003-03-28T21:56:01","date_gmt":"2003-03-29T02:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=204"},"modified":"2003-03-28T21:56:01","modified_gmt":"2003-03-29T02:56:01","slug":"doyle_arthur_co_6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/03\/doyle_arthur_co_6\/","title":{"rendered":"Conan Doyle, Arthur: (07) The Valley of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"200063792\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_200063792\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I picked up <strong>the next Sherlock Holmes novel on my list, <cite>The Valley of Fear<\/cite><\/strong>, because it seemed like it would be a good soothing read in times of uncertainty. As far as that went, it worked okay, but it really wasn&#8217;t that good a book. It started out in a promising fashion, with talk of Moriarty (obviously, this is a prequel), but shortly devolves into a fairly predictable murder mystery. I don&#8217;t know if Doyle was being really obvious, or I&#8217;m getting used to how Holmes stories work, but I was with Holmes all the way on the deductions. And then, once the murder is solved, we head into a long backstory exposition, chock full of lurid secret societies and star-crossed lovers and ocean-spanning vengeance. Excuse me, but we&#8217;ve done this already, and it wasn&#8217;t all that good in <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/10\/doyle_arthur_co_1\/\"><cite>A Study in Scarlet<\/cite><\/a>, either.<\/p>\n<p>*sigh* I want more Moriarty, and I&#8217;m not going to get it, at least not in Doyle&#8217;s works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up the next Sherlock Holmes novel on my list, The Valley of Fear, because it seemed like it would be a good soothing read in times of uncertainty. As far as that went, it worked okay, but it really wasn&#8217;t that good a book. It started out in a promising fashion, with talk &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/03\/doyle_arthur_co_6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conan Doyle, Arthur: (07) The Valley of Fear&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6,16],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-mystery","category-sherlock-holmes-mystery","tag-conan-doyle-arthur"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}