If these are the same three from the BFI’s “Silent Sherlock” programme, I’m especially curious about “The Final Problem”: Percy Standing’s Moriarty, with Cheddar Gorge doubling for Reichenbach. How does that final struggle play after restoration?

This sounds fascinating. In “The Five Orange Pips,” Holmes keeps his “brain-attic” for what he uses and puts the rest in “the lumber-room of his library.” It makes me wonder about Doyle’s own shelves: which books did he keep at his elbow, and which went to the lumber-room?

That fits The Illustrious Client, published a few years later but set in 1902, where Holmes speaks of “the living Colonel Sebastian Moran”. ACD keeps him alive but offstage. Thanks for the reply, and for a great episode.

Really enjoyed your comparison of the play and the story. If the one-act Sherlock really dates from 1912, Moran was still Doyle's villain of choice two decades after Reichenbach. I wonder whether he became Sylvius partly because readers had last seen Moran taken into custody in The Empty House.

Thank you.

The Victorian Moriarty Saga begins three years later, when Holmes hands Watson the journal he recovered from Moriarty’s coat at Reichenbach and asks him to read Moriarty’s version of events before hearing what Holmes discovered afterwards.

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Photographs cannot convey the sound.
This is Reichenbach from the path itself: the roar, the spray, and the sheer scale of the place Doyle chose for Holmes and Moriarty’s confrontation.