Reichenbach Falls

The screenwriters, Michele and Kieran Mulroney, have drawn on Conan Doyle's novel The Valley of Fear for Moriarty's character and background, and on the story "The Final Problem" for the film's climactic encounter between Moriarty and Holmes at an anachronistically named "summit conference" beside the Reichenbach Falls.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – review 2011

In the meantime, I'm tempted to credit Holmes with rescuing the director from his own, personal Reichenbach Falls.

Sherlock Holmes: a Game of Shadows – review 2011

We're like Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty, fighting above the Reichenbach Falls.

AV battle dragged the coalition to the edge of a precipice 2011

His so-called "hidden years," after the arch-villain Professor Moriarty sent Holmes plunging over the cliff-edge into the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, have been pitilessly re-imagined.

The Game Is Always Afoot D.J. Taylor 2011

The adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the pipe-smoking cocaine- injecting, easily bored detective, chronicled by his literal minded but devoted companion Dr Watson, were such a sensation in late Victorian England that when Doyle got bored and attempted to kill him off, dropping him into the Reichenbach Falls locked in battle with his deadly adversary Moriarty, he was forced by public demand to revive him.

New Sherlock Holmes novel by Anthony Horowitz out in November 2011

OK, so we begin where we left off with Sherlock BBC1, Sunday – with Moriarty at a London swimming pool which is kind of the Reichenbach Falls.

TV review: Sherlock; Hacks 2012

Especially his postmodern trilogy of parodic detective stories which conclude at a Sherlock Holmes conference in Meiringen, where Adair himself plunges into the Reichenbach Falls with his own central character.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – review 2011

John Gardner's three "Moriarty" novels imagine their titular hero surviving the struggle at the Reichenbach Falls.

The Game Is Always Afoot D.J. Taylor 2011

We have skipped over half a century on from A Mysterious Affair of Style – and yet, there, in the audience for a writers 'Sherlock Holmes-themed shindig in Meiringen (adjacent to the Reichenbach Falls), is Mount, unchanged as ever, despite having a notional age of 120 or so.

And Then There Was No One by Gilbert Adair 2010

If so, my grandkids and their grandkids will know about EQMM just as I know about Baker Street and Reichenbach Falls.

The Body Ricardo 2010