The Final Deduction: The Last of Sherlock Holmes

THE LAST OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. This accounting of Sherlock Holmes' last case I have penned only after much consideration and debate. What follows will not be released to my heirs until long after that brilliant intelligence and myself have passed from this material world. Otherwise, the scandal this chronicle will create would outweigh the momentous accomplishments of Holmes and sensationalize our remaining lives in a manner I am certain we would both find undesirable. Yet this last case and all its revelations must be published, for without it, the true significance of who and what Holmes was will never be appreciated. I know this to be true, for until this last adventure—though I had called him friend for thirty years—I did not know Sherlock Holmes. Dr. John Watson.