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Waterfall

Season 1 Episode 3 | 3m 27s

Sherlock Holmes is back from the dead! After mounting pressure from fans across the world, Arthur Conan Doyle finally revives the great, fictional detective in a new story published in The Strand Magazine. Visiting the Reichenbach Falls, the site of Sherlock's "death," Lucy Worsley explains how Holmes survived his brawl with Professor Moriarty.

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