Whatever became of Sherlock Holmes’s rival Moriarty?
Professor James Moriarty, “the Napoleon of Crime,” was killed.
Moriarty and Holmes, locked in combat, fell over the edge of the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.
Amazingly, Holmes survived.
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