Yes. He is hanged by a length of chain off a bridge during the battle with him at the end.
"The final Problem" was the name of the book in which Sherlock Holmes was written to die, however, readers insisted he be brought back, and to great surprise he was!
It is in the short story¨"The Final Problem," which can be found in the book 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.'
Violine.
In the trailer, it shows a casket being lowered into a grave marked Sherlock Holmes: 18 something something to 1888. So it's safe to assume that he truly does die. But they could also do with this what Conan Doyle did after The Final Problem.
He didn't die at all.
Dr. John H. Watson does not die in any of the original Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Watson continues to assist Sherlock Holmes on various cases throughout the series, even after Holmes' presumed death in "The Final Problem."
If you're talking about the one with Robert Downey Jr., No.
According to Sherlock himself, Colonel Sebastian Moran saw him at the falls, and Sherlock told his brother Mycroft later.
7 July 1930 (aged 71) Crowborough, East Sussex, England
The great detective faked his death at Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, but Conan Doyle never did write about where Holmes died later in life.
Inspector MacDonald did not die in any of the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Was he in a movie or a book not written by Sir Arthur?
Gudrun Jaster has: Performed in "Till Eulenspiegel" in 1974. Played Feuermann in "Die Regentrude" in 1976. Performed in "Der Geisterseher" in 1988. Played Zwerg in "Sherlock Holmes und die sieben Zwerge" in 1992. Performed in "Otto - Der Liebesfilm" in 1992. Played Zwerg in "Sherlock Holmes und die sieben Zwerge" in 1994.