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The Final Problem
Sign in to saveshort story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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- Author
- David Eastman
- First published
- 1982
- Editions
- 1
- Subjects
- Mystery and detective stories, Adaptations
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Key facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Detective fiction short stories
- Published in
- Strand Magazine
- Publication date
- December 1893
- Series
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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Full text
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - The Final Problem
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre
- crime fiction
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Series
- canon of Sherlock Holmes
- Followed by
- The Adventure of the Empty House
- Narrative location
- Meiringen
- Image
- Sidney Paget - Original illustration of The Death of Sherlock Holmes, 1893.png
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- language of work or name
- English language
- derivative work
- Sherlock Holmes
- published in
- The Strand Magazine
- Commons category
- The Adventure of the Final Problem
- illustrator
- Sidney Paget
- characters
- Dr. Watson
- title
- The Final Problem
- publication date
- 1893-12-00
- inception
- 1891-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- short story
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Encyclopedic overview
"The Final Problem" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom, and McClure's Magazine in the United States, under the title "The Adventure of the Final Problem" in December 1893. It appears in book form as part of the collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
The story, set in 1891, introduces the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty. It was intended to be the final Holmes story, ending with the character's death, but Doyle was later persuaded to revive Holmes for additional stories and novels.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Final Problem” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.