It is possible William Pinkerton, the son and successor to Allan Pinkerton in running the famous detective agency, mentioned this and much of the story to Conan Doyle, and the latter took the fate of Carey for the similar fate of Jack Douglas on board a ship off St Helena (on the opposite side of Africa). O'Donnell had relatives in the Mollies, and briefly visited the Pennsylvania coal mining district, supposedly looking for the suspected informer among them. Carey was shot on board a ship off the coast of Natal in 1883 by Patrick O'Donnell, a committed Irish revolutionary. This was the death of James Carey, the informer on the Irish National Invincibles who committed the Phoenix Park murders of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke. It is loosely based on the real-life exploitscitation needed of the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. It ties the Molly Maguire background to another sensation of that period. The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The "Moriarty" element in the story is tied into the fate of the informer in the story. Watson has never heard of Moriarty, whereas by the end of The Valley Of Fear he is, or should be, familiar with his name and character. This introduces a logical difficulty, as in The Final Problem Dr. The Valley of Fear, notable for Professor Moriarty's involvement, is set before "The Final Problem", the short story in which Moriarty was introduced.
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