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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20050724
Author:Cathy Pryor

It's 1893, and Arthur Conan Doyle has decided to commit a heinous crime: the slaughter of Sherlock Holmes. Sick to the back teeth of his best-loved creation, he sends him over a waterfall grappling with his nemesis, the arch-villain Moriarty, in The Final Problem.

The howls of outrage that this act inspires from millions of Holmes fans worldwide only add to the intense turmoil afflicting Conan Doyle, played in this feature-length drama by Douglas Henshall. His wife (Saskia Reeves) is terminally ill, he's falling in love with a younger woman (Emily Blunt), and his father, confined for many ...

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