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Article: Celebrating at the crime scene: when a bored author decided to kill off his detective hero, he chose Switzerland's Reichenbach Falls near Meiringen as his Tatort--the scene of an unthinkable crime. Swiss News revisited the scene in honour of Sherlock Holmes and his Scottish creator's milestone birthday.(ART & CULTURE)
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- May 1, 2009
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Hotel and tourism officials in the Bernese Oberland's Oberhaslital valley will be ecstatic this month-and especially on May 22--as Sherlock Holmes societies worldwide pay homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on what would be his 150th birthday.
Visitors from the world's 200-plus Sherlock Holmes societies are planning pilgrimages to the crime scene. For it's here, at the top of the thundering Reichenbach Falls, that the fictional detective locked brains and brawn with his archenemy Professor James Moriarty, in a 'fatal' hand-to-hand duel.
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