Sherlock Holmes meets his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, in a struggle to the death at th eReichenbach Falls in Conan Doyle's "The Final Problem." The evenly matched adversaries fall over the cliff, locked in a deadly embrace. Both are reported death. [The Strand magazine featuring this story comes out on this day.]
Mystery of Marie Roget.
Maria Montez center, Patric Knowles on the right.
1942
Edgar Allan Poe's detective C. Auguste Dupin is renamed Dr. Paul Dupin, in Phil Rosen's movie The Mystery of Marie Roget, released on this day. It starred Patric Knowles as Dupin, and Maria Montez. The movies does not receive good reviews.
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