Sherlock Holmes is Dead
This article was published in The St. James's Gazette on 13 december 1893.
The article was published just after the publication of The Adventure of the Final Problem in The Strand Magazine where Sherlock Holmes disappeared in the Reichenbach Falls.
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We regret to announce that Sherlock Holmes is dead. In the Christmas number of the Strand Magazine this remarkable person at last meets with somebody on the same intellectual plane as himself," which seems extraordinary, for we did not know that the world could produce another intellect of this calibre. When two such minds meet the result — but we need not spoil the interest of Conan Doyle's dénouement. We can only hope that the protests of still unsatiated readers will not compel Dr. Doyle to dig up Sherlock Holmes again, as Shakespeare had to disinter Falstaff, after he had died babbling of green fields, to oblige Queen Elizabeth.
