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{{Short description|Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes}}
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{{Infobox short story <!--See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]]-->
| name              = The Final Problem
| image             = Sidney Paget - Original illustration of The Death of Sherlock Holmes, 1893.png
| caption           = [[Sherlock Holmes]] and [[Professor Moriarty|Moriarty]] fighting at the [[Reichenbach Falls]], 1893 original illustration by [[Sidney Paget]] for ''[[The Strand Magazine]]''
| title_orig        = 
| translator        = 
| author            = [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]
| country           = United Kingdom
| language          = English
| series            = ''[[The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]]''
| genre             = [[Detective fiction]] [[short stories]]
| published_in      = [[Strand Magazine]]
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| pub_date          = December 1893
| english_pub_date  = 
| preceded_by_italics = [[The Adventure of the Naval Treaty]]
| followed_by_italics = [[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]
| wikisource        = The Final Problem
}}
"'''The Final Problem'''" is a short story by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] featuring his detective character [[Sherlock Holmes]]. It was first published in ''[[The Strand Magazine]]'' in the United Kingdom, and ''[[McClure's]]'' in the United States, under the title '''"The Adventure of the Final Problem"''' in December 1893. It appears in book form as part of the collection ''[[The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]]''.

The story, set in 1891, introduces the criminal mastermind [[Professor Moriarty]]. It was intended to be the final Holmes story, ending with the character's death, but Doyle was later persuaded to revive Holmes for additional stories and novels. 

Doyle later ranked "The Final Problem" fourth on his personal list of the twelve best Holmes stories.<ref name="doylelist">{{Citation | author1=Doyle, Arthur Conan | author2=Giddings, Robert | title=Favourite Sherlock Holmes stories | year=2009 | publication-date=2009 | publisher=Atlantic | isbn=978-1-84354-910-9 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/favouritesherloc0000doyl }}</ref>