Calling Sherlock Holmes afficionados

[Tapirman]

In a pub quiz last night I was told that Sherlock died at the Reichenbach Falls, though having myself read the case of 'The Empty House' a couple of weeks ago, I was lead to believe that it was Moriarty who died there and Holmes merely faked his own death for a year or two in order to escape the Professor's accomplices. Who is correct ?

[sft42]

Conan Doyle had grown weary of Homes and thought it was a poor form of writing, considering his historical novels to be far better, and so decided to kill off Holmes...The falls incident was indeed to be the death of old Sherlock in 1893 in "The Final Problem" but his public refused to accept Holmes's death and during a golfing holiday in 1901 he wrote a pre-death novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" but this wasn't enough and in 1903 Conan Doyle reluctantly brought him back to life in "The Adventure of the Empty House", giving Watson a fainting fit in the process, during this he revealed that Moriarty had plunged into the falls alone! Thirty-two more adventures followed before the author's death.

[incitatus]

more picky fans suggested that the holmes who came back was an imposter- that he never regained his edge after the death.