The conclusion Watson reaches is that Holmes’ cocaine addiction is gradually driving him mad, and his only hope lies in consulting with a psychiatrist who once endorsed cocaine, yet how will Holmes be induced to travel to Vienna, never mind unburden himself? When Moriarty comes to call on Watson, it’s as a man claiming to be persecuted by Holmes. To being with we rarely see the composed and intellectual Holmes, but a man paranoid about one Moriarty, a genius whose nefarious deeds he believes are being covered up. It’s certainly an iconoclastic depiction. Instead there was the case he’s about to reveal, one that couldn’t previously be told out of respect to two parties, the then recently deceased Freud, and Holmes himself, who found the dissection of his own character distasteful. There was no death at the Reichenbach Falls, nor a miraculous return. It begins with an 87 year old Dr Watson in 1939 confessing that two of the books he wrote about Holmes’ adventures are fabrications. In 2016 it was the turn of David Tipton and Scott Tipton, to adapt Meyer’s work. He conceived the meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud as a novel, published in 1974, and two years later he wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation.
The Seven Per-Cent solution was developed by American screenwriter Nicholas Meyer to keep himself busy during a strike.
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