num_pages: 266
description: It is at the end of The Memoirs that Watson, in 1893, takes up his pen with a heavy heart to reveal what really happened at the Falls of Reichenbach between the 'Napoleon of Crime', Professor Moriarty, and his own intimate friend, Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle had every intention of killing off Holmes and extinguishing Europe's most dangerous and capable criminal at a single blow. But if Holmes must go - and Conan Doyle's other preoccupations seemed to dictate this - it must be with a flourish. And what better antagonist than one in every way his intellectual equal? 'My horror at his crimes was lost in admiration at his skill,' Holmes confides to Watson. So into that dreadful cauldron of swirling water and seething foam the perfectly matched combatants are plunged, leaving poor Watson and countless readers to mourn.
language: English
title: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
titlecomplete: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
characters: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, James Moriarty, Dr. John Watson
genres: Mystery, Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Historical Fiction, Short Stories, Audiobook
ratings_count: 95336
series: Sherlock Holmes
publisher: J. Murray ; Cape