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I'm Hugh Bonneville and welcome to Sherlock Holmes short stories.

The series where we delve into the files of fiction's

most brilliant detective, following his keen mind and unerring instincts from the first subtle

clue to the final dramatic revelation. This time, Holmes faces the one man in the world whom he considers

his intellectual equal.

Professor James Moriarty, the so-called Napoleon of Crime.

For many years now, Holmes has been working to bring down Moriarty's crime syndicate.

Now, at last, he stands on the verge of completing his life's work.

But Moriarty doesn't intend to go down quietly.

And when Holmes' nemesis finally catches up with him,

the great detective will find himself between a rock and a hard place,

with no solution in sight.

From the Noiser Podcast Network, this is The Final Problem, Part One. It is with a heavy heart that I'd take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished.

In an incoherent and, as I deeply feel, an entirely inadequate fashion,

I have endeavored to give some account of my strange experiences in his company from the

chance which first brought us together at the period of the study in Scarlet,

up to the time of his interference in the matter of the Naval Treaty,

an interference which had the unquestionable effect of preventing a serious international complication.

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