The Final Problem

Interesting Facts

• This book marks the first appearance of Professor Moriarty, who becomes Sherlock Holmes' main antagonist.
• Arthur Conan Doyle initially intended this to be the last story about Sherlock Holmes, as he wanted to focus on other literary projects.
• The scene at the Reichenbach Falls, where the final confrontation between Holmes and Moriarty occurs, has become one of the most famous in Sherlock Holmes literature.
• After the story's publication, readers were so dissatisfied with Holmes' death that Conan Doyle was compelled to bring him back to life in subsequent works.
• The story was first published in the «Strand Magazine» in December 1893.