Editing The Final Problem (section)

==Reaction==
In an article published by the [[BBC]], Jennifer Keishin Armstrong noted that "The public reaction to the death was unlike anything previously seen for fictional events."  ''[[The Strand Magazine]]'' "barely survived" the resulting rush of subscription cancellations.<ref name="BBCculture">{{cite web |last1=Keishin Armstrong |first1=Jennifer |title=How Sherlock Holmes Changed the World |url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160106-how-sherlock-holmes-changed-the-world |website=BBC |access-date=21 November 2019}}</ref> There were some stories that "young men throughout London wore black mourning crêpes on their hats or around their arms for the month of Holmes’ death" although these may have been exaggerations propounded by Doyle's son.<ref name="BBCculture"/> Armstrong continues, "Readers typically accepted what went on in their favourite books, then moved on. Now they were beginning to take their popular culture personally, and to expect their favourite works to conform to certain expectations."<ref name="BBCculture"/>

Pressure from fans eventually persuaded Doyle to bring Holmes back, writing ''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'' (set before "The Final Problem") and reviving him in "[[The Adventure of the Empty House]]". There were enough holes in eyewitness accounts to allow Doyle to plausibly resurrect Holmes; only the few free surviving members of Moriarty's organisation and Holmes' brother [[Mycroft Holmes|Mycroft]] (who appears briefly in this story) know that Sherlock Holmes is still alive, having won the struggle at the Reichenbach Falls and sent Moriarty to his doom—though nearly meeting his own at the hands of one of Moriarty's henchmen.<ref>Baring-Gould, William S., ''The Annotated Sherlock Holmes''. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1967, pp. 320-328.</ref>