Perhaps the most momentous story in the Sherlock Holmes mythology, The Final Problem was first published in The Strand magazine in 1893. It introduced the criminal genius, Professor Moriarity, and the outcome of their struggle at the Reichenbach Falls remains the stuff of legend. Conan
Doyle's classic short story chills the reader to the core, and forever established him as a master storyteller.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930), one of the greatest Scottish authors, transformed the art of fiction. Author of numerous novels and short stories, including A Study in Scarlet, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of the Four, and The Final Problem, he is considered to be a literary colossus, and a central figure in the development of the modern detective novel.
