After the usual Holmesian escapades, Watson follows Sherlock to the Reichenbach falls where he discovers that Holmes has apparently fallen to his death – and the book ends twenty-nine pages before it was meant to.’ There was a shocked silence as everyone took this in. We hadn’t had a textual anomaly of this size since Lucy Pevensie refused to get into the wardrobe at the beginning of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
