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As Arthur Conan Doyle knew better than anyone, death is never the end. Sherlock Holmes did not die when he and Professor Moriarty plunged over the Reichenbach Falls at the end of ‘The Adventure of the Final Problem’ in 1893, nor did he die after being put out to pasture by Conan Doyle in what is chronologically the latest of his adventures, ‘His Last Bow’ (published in 1917, but set in 1914), which left him in retirement on the Sussex Downs, keeping bees. Not even the death of his creator on 7 July 1930 would spell the end of Holmes, who has continued to live an increasingly vivid and complex afterlife, in stage, cinema, and television adaptations, in print and online in fictional sequels, spin-offs, and continuations, and fan fictions, and in a rich repository of academic scholarship and ‘Sherlockian’ research. Between them, Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes changed the face of literature. The modern history of genre fiction is almost inconceivable without them, and Holmes himself is certainly the most celebrated literary detective, and perhaps the most famous literary character, ever created. The twenty-first century has been a time of volcanic activity in the worlds of Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle. Important critical works such as Catherine Wynne’s The Colonial Conan Doyle (2002), Douglas Kerr’s Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice (2013), and Clare Clarke’s Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock (2014), are just a few of the books to have changed the way we think about Holmes. In addition, Lellenberg, Stashower, and Foley’s Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters (2007) and Andrew Lycett’s biography Conan Doyle: The Man who Created Sherlock Holmes (2007) have greatly enriched the store of our knowledge. Across a variety of media, Holmes has found new lives, and ever larger audiences.