The Final Problem
Videos
"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 Mag
Holmes and Moriarty, 1893 illustration by Harry C. Edwards in McClure's
The Reichenbach Falls, near Meiringen, Switzerland
Statue of Holmes outside the English Church, Meiringen
London-style Street sign outside the Sherlock Holmes Museum
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from Augu
The Final Problem
…and to expect their favourite works to conform to certain expectations." Pressure from fans eventually persuaded Doyle to bring Holmes back, writing The Hound of the Baskervilles (set before "The Final Problem") and reviving him in "The Adventure of the Empty House". There were enough holes in eyewitness accounts to allow Doyle…
The cover of the first edition
Frontispiece to The Hound of the Baskervilles first edition: "The Shadow of Sherlock Holmes" (Watson investigates the hut where a mysterious figure is living secretly on the moor–only to discover it is Sherlock Holmes, who was supposedly back in London (Chapters 11 and 12))
Baskerville Hall, formally Clyro Court, may have inspired The Hound of the Baskervilles
The ruins of Fowelscombe House, a possible model for Baskerville Hall