00:02Generations of armchair detectives are celebrating International Sherlock Holmes Day on Friday,
00:07marking Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday in tribute to the author and the world's most famous detective.
00:13But celebrations already began earlier this month, on the 3rd of May,
00:18when enthusiasts travelled to Switzerland's Reichenbach Falls to re-enact the fateful confrontation
00:23between Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis, Professor James Moriarty,
00:27which shocked readers of the final problem in 1893 when Conan Doyle intended to kill off the beloved detective.
00:35It's so full of atmosphere and it's a pilgrimage.
00:39It's a very dramatic setting.
00:41The sound, the backdrop, the music behind us of the cascading water is just wonderful.
00:48At the time, readers mourned and protested Holmes' death,
00:52prompting Conan Doyle to reverse his decision and bring him back in The Adventure of the Empty House,
00:57revealing that the detective had staged his death and survived the falls.
01:01The Sherlock Holmes stories helped establish many of the conventions of modern detective fiction.
01:07Between 1887 and 1927, Conan Doyle wrote four Holmes novels and 56 short stories,
01:14introducing techniques such as forensic deduction, close observation and logical analysis
01:19that later became standard elements of crime fiction.
01:22The Sherlock Holmes story says that,
01:24The Sherlock Holmes theory to assert the book of Bedford and Crawford
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