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Back down the Reichenbach Falls

“Moriarty”:  the title of Anthony Horowitz’s latest Sherlock Holmes pastiche is, of course, arresting.  The book starts at the point where Conan Doyle originally intended Holmes to meet his death on the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland but was persuaded by admirers to let the great detective survive.

 Doyle, in a later story, explained how this came about. Horowitz in his new book provides a more elaborate outcome which will surely entice all fans.  Was Professor Moriarty - Holmes’s devious and implacale enemy - really his alter ego? The suggestion has been made more than once, quite strikingly in the recent updated BBC film of the original story. 

Read  Horowitz’s new book, which sticks to the original period,  for a fresh and fascinating  look at the last meeting between them and what happened after it. Keep your eye on Inspector Jones.

27 October 2014