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Reichenbach Falls waterfalls, total drop 656 ft (200 m), S central Switzerland, where the Reichenbach River joins the Aare River. Upper Reichenbach Falls is one of the highest cataracts (c.300 ft/90 m high) in the Alps. It is familiar to readers of A. Conan Doyle as the place where Sherlock Holmes was said to have disappeared and his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, died.

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Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, one of the highest falls in the Alps, and scene of the final struggle between Sherlock Holmes and his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty. Conan Doyle was persuaded by popular demand to allow the detective to emerge from the Reichenbach Falls alive.

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	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) Magazine article from: Swiss News; 5/1/2009
	John R. King: The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls.(ON THE SHELF IN BERN: English Books) Magazine article from: Swiss News; 10/1/2008
	"Alternating currents". Magazine article from: New Criterion; 12/1/1998

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	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) Magazine article from: Swiss News; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...at the top of the thundering Reichenbach Falls, that the fictional detective...the Bernese Oberland and the Reichenbach Falls while staying at a hotel in...Meiringen via the 120-metre-high Reichenbach Falls. Conan Doyle felt sure the... Read more
	John R. King: The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls.(ON THE SHELF IN BERN: English Books) Magazine article from: Swiss News; 10/1/2008; 48 words ; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The famous falls where Sherlock Holmes fought with his nemesis Moriarty form the backdrop to this intriguing crime novel. What if Holmes survived... Read more
	"Alternating currents". Magazine article from: New Criterion; 12/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...dark Imagine, if you will, a hotel room fronting Niagara Falls. Helen Keller has been brought here by her teacher, Annie...torrent. Once I saw her robed in white on the brink of Niagara Falls. Her costume seemed to be an angel's. When she dropped into...great men tumble in a wrestler's grip together down the ... Read more
	Elementary.(Review) Magazine article from: National Review; 5/31/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...historical novels, such as The White Company and Sir Nigel; which is why he tried, vainly, to kill Holmes off in the Reichenbach Falls. He espoused a number of public causes, mostly very proper ones, including the exposure, using forensic evidence... Read more
	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, VI.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review) Magazine article from: Kliatt; 1/1/2004; ; 225 words ; ...Holmes is at his greatest intensity. He confronts the Napoleon of crime, and Holmes and Professor Moriarty go over Reichenbach Falls. Teachers will appreciate the evolving picture of Holmes in the four adventures, competently read by Timson, but... Read more
	Potter petition. Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England); 7/9/2007; 700+ words ; ...of his creation, Conan Doyle wrote The Adventure of the Final Solution, in which Holmes seemingly falls to his death at the Reichenbach Falls during a violent struggle with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty. I weary of his name, Conan Doyle... Read more
	The man behind Sherlock Holmes.(Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes)(Book review) Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...diagnostically acute scientific detective, Sherlock Holmes; his cavalier and callous despatch of Holmes over the Reichenbach Falls in the mistaken belief that his historical creations, Brigadier Gerard and other non-Sherlockian novels, were of... Read more
	SHERLOCKIAN APOCRYPHA : From Jack the Ripper to Fu Manchu. Magazine article from: Commonweal; 12/21/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Arthur Conan Doyle discovered when an outraged public forced him to revive the character after pitching him over the Reichenbach Falls in the 1893 story The Final Problem. The man with the deerstalker is more reassuring than most detectives, for he... Read more