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Article: Holmes and away! Haven't a clue where to go in Switzerland? Try the dramatic waterfall where the great detective met his end, says Robert Gore-Langton.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2004
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Byline: ROBERT GORE-LANGTON
SWITZERLAND was where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle plotted the death of Sherlock Holmes.
Sick of writing stories about the sleuth, the author, who was a keen hiker, travelled around Switzerland and decided to make the spectacular Reichenbach Falls, near the village of Meiringen, the place to bump off his great detective.
And, so, on May 4, 1891, Holmes and his arch- enemy Professor Moriarty ('the Napoleon of crime') did battle on a tiny ledge at the top of the falls.
They supposedly vanished into the raging torrent whose noise was like a 'half-human shout which came booming up with the spray out of the abyss'.
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