Sentence examples for in the final problem from inspiring English sources

The series finale pays homage to Holmes's apparent death in "The Final Problem", the 1893 story with which Conan Doyle originally intended to conclude the Holmes chronicles.

I do it with a heavy heart because I know there's a moment that can't be beat – this simple exchange in The Final Problem, written in 1893.

Conan Doyle persevered in his homicide, inventing the Napoleon of crime, Moriarity, who in "The Final Problem" plunges with Holmes into the seething waters of Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.

Any fanatical admirer of Sherlock Holmes knows how he spent the Great Hiatus, those dark years between his dramatic tumble over the Reichenbach Falls in "The Final Problem" and his sensational re-emergence in "The Empty House".

On Sunday night, The Musgrave Ritual was mined for flashbacks to strange games in Sherlock's childhood and a sub-plot of Mycroft suspecting a burglar, while even the Bondish island hideaway drew on the images of rocks and water present, through the Reichenbach Falls, in The Final Problem.

(His death in "The Final Problem" had enraged fans, causing thousands to cancel their subscriptions to The Strand). Although Conan Doyle had previously claimed to have grown "weary" of Sherlock's name, he subsequently revived the character after negotiating a large payment from publishers.

Claiming that Holmes distracted him "from better things," Conan 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.

"It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr Sherlock Holmes was distinguished," narrator Dr John Watson says in Conan Doyle's story The Final Problem, which appeared in The Strand magazine in December 1893.

Claiming that Holmes distracted him "from better things," Conan 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.

It was the first Sherlock Holmes tale since the detective's shocking "death" in the story "The Final Problem" (1893) but was set prior to his demise.

When in 1893, at the end of the series, Conan Doyle elected to kill off his hero in the story "The Final Problem", by having him wrestle to the death with the dastardly Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, there was a public outcry.