The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a 1905 collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories originally published in 1903–1904 by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Britain and Collier's in the United States. But rather than take a break from Holmes Conan Doyle decided that Holmes had to die. So in a story titled The Adventure of the Final Problem published 1893 Holmes dies after falling off a cliff while battling his arch-nemesis the evil Professor Moriarty. ... And this is pretty much what happened after Holmes died.