Sherlock defeats Moriarty by pulling him over Reichenbach Falls, with both of them falling to their apparent deaths. Holmes is later shown to have survived. In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story "The Final Problem" (intended to be the final Sherlock Holmes story), Holmes defeated Moriarty in the same way, by falling over a waterfall to the apparent death of both. However, in response to overwhelming public demand, Doyle wrote another story and resurrected Holmes.