Finality A Sherlock

This is a fanfiction exploration of an "alternative reality" to the canon Sherlock Holmes adventures, The Final Problem and the Adventure of the Empty House. The first famously killed off Sherlock Holmes, throwing all of London into mourning and making Arthur Conan Doyle the recipient of much hate mail. Still he held out, keeping his most famous creation "dead" it took him 10 years to relent. When he did resurrect Holmes, it was in the Adventure of the Empty House, and only three years of "Holmes universe" time had been lost--the great "hiatus" as Sherlockians refer to it.

That in itself is a time honored pastiche tradition, the talented Nicholas Meyer beautifully used an "alternate reality" for the hiatus in his The Seven Percent Solution, a wonderful novel and great film--now almost impossible to find, as it is not in print in DVD.

This story works best with some familiarity with canon. It hypothesizes that the published accounts were in reality, "unreliable narrative" and offers alternative scenes--using the SH09 film universe, already an reimagining, though very much in the spirit of canon and using many lines from the same-- events, presences and absences.