A collection of gripping cases that culminates in the most shocking of all - the notorious, fatal encounter between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. 'He is the Napoleon of Crime...He is the organiser of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city'. A man like Sherlock Holmes has many enemies. Violent murderers, deviant villains, ghosts of old loves, blackmailers and poisonous scribes, to to name but a few. But none are so deadly, so powerful, as Professor Moriarty. Moriarty - the only man who can compete with Holmes' genius. The only man who can, perhaps, ultimately defeat the great detective ...
was some time before the health of my friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes, recovered
from the strain caused by his immense exertions in the spring of '87. The whole
question of the Netherland-Sumatra Company and of the colossal schemes of
Baron Maupertuis is too recent in the minds of the public, and too intimately
concerned with politics and finance, to be a fitting subject for this series of
sketches. It led, however, in an indirect fashion to a singular and complex
problem, which gave my ...
