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thin with a prominent forehead
    and sunken eyes which might view the world with a cold
    malevolence and cunning were there any life in them at all.
    But now they are glazed and empty. The man, formally dressed
    in a suit with a wing collar and a long frock coat, has been
    fished out of the Reichenbach Brook, some distance from the
    falls. His left leg is broken and there are other serious injuries
    to his shoulder and head, but death must surely have been
    caused by drowning. The local police have attached a label
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    to his wrist, which has been folded across his chest. On it is
    written the name: James Moriarty.
    This is the reason I have come all the way to Switzerland.
    It appears that I have arrived too late.
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