Monday, February 21, 2011

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Final Problem (p542-558)

This is the last story of the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and I might add that it also has  a good story. The story starts with Holmes going to Watson and telling him how three attempts of murder were placed on him. In the first attempt, a cab was trying to run him over. During the second attempt, someone tried to drop a brick from a rooftop but just barely missed him. During the third attempt, Holmes was attacked by a man but he fought him off. This all happened after he visited a man named Professor Moriarty and he could not prove any of it to the police. During this story, Holmes stated that Moriarty was his intellectual equal. Later in the story, Holmes meets Watson at the Victoria Station dressed as a priest so no one would recognize him. But while they were talking, Holmes found out that Moriarty tracked Watson to the station. So, in order to get away, they hide behind luggage. After that, Holmes found out that most of Moriarty's people were arrested but because they still were not safe, Holmes and Watson went to Switzerland. When they were there, Moriarty found a way to track them down and keep Watson away from Holmes for enough time. Holmes was able to write a letter where Watson could find it telling that he had to go fight Moriarty. At the end of the story Watson found Holmes and Moriarty dead and he went back to England.
After some research, I found that Doyle was trying to finish the Sherlock Holmes stories and write different literary works. But because his audience wanted more Holmes, he brought it back.

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