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The Final Problem

short story by Conan Doyle

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character of Holmes

  • Basil Rathbone
    In Sherlock Holmes

    …Doyle famously in 1893 (“The Final Problem”) attempted to kill him off; during a violent struggle on Switzerland’s Reichenbach Falls, both Holmes and his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, are plunged over the edge of the precipice. Popular outcry against the demise of Holmes was great; men wore black mourning bands,…

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