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Mystery: June 14, 2017 Issue [#8337]

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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


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I've loved the Sherlock Holmes stories ever since I first read them when I was about ten or eleven.

I saw the film of Hound of the Baskervilles (with Peter Cushing as Holmes), and that first had me hooked. I've read all of the stories, and it's always fascinated me how Holmes solves these crimes based on the tiniest piece of minutae.

The one thing though that drives me crazy though, is that most people only ever remember one foe of his, Professor Moriarty. Moriarty's place in Holmes' lore is well-established, and as the overall crime lord of London, of course Moriarty is an important character. However, many people are shocked when they find out that he only appears in the short story, The Adventure of the Final Problem.

Moriarty was actually created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle purely as a way to kill off Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle had tired of writing about Holmes by this point, feeling that Holmes was distracting him from more serious literary pursuits, but he did want his character to go out with a bang. What better way, than by sacrificing his life, and taking Moriarty with him, as they plummet over the Reichenbach Falls.

Of course Conan Doyle made the happy mistake of later publishing the third Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles (set before Holmes' death), some seven or eight years after he had last published a Holmes story, under mounting pressure from fans. Conan Doyle, eventually forced to bring Holmes back from the dead, went on to write numerous more short stories and one more novel featuring London's only Consulting Detective.


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