But he quickly tired of the tales, complaining to his mother that Holmes takes my mind from better things . So, in 1893, he sent the detective over the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland during a struggle with his underworld nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Killed Holmes was all Conan Doyle deigned to scribble in his notebook. The public was devastated, as was his mother, but it would take 10 years of pleading and pressure before he gave in and resurrected Holmes from his watery grave.
The later letters are those of an important public figure, dining with the King and earning a knighthood with an impassioned defense of Britain s role in the Boer War at a time when world opinion was against it, not least due to the British Army s use of scorched earth tactics. His final years were marked by tragedy-he lost his brother Innes and his son Kingsley to World WarⅠand by controversy, as he became Britain s most famous defender of spiritualism, convinced of our ability to communicate with the dead through a medium. It brought personal solace and public ridicule. In one of his last letters to his mother, who never embraced these beliefs, he wrote: What does it matter what anyone says of me. I have a good hide by this time After his death in 1930, all of this would be forgotten and Conan Doyle would be immortalized as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. It was not the legacy he wanted-but in the end, it was not for him to decide.
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