In several stories, he adopts disguises to gather evidence while ' under cover ' so convincing that even Watson fails to penetrate them, such as in " The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton ", " The Man with the Twisted Lip ", " The Adventure of the Empty House " and " A Scandal in Bohemia ".

Holmes mentions Moriarty reminiscently in five other stories: " The Adventure of the Empty House " ( the immediate sequel to " The Final Problem "), " The Adventure of the Norwood Builder ", " The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter ", " The Adventure of the Illustrious Client ", and " His Last Bow ".

Moriarty died when he fell off the Reichenbach Falls while Holmes, as revealed in " The Empty House ", only faked his death to make the few remaining Moriarty henchmen expose themselves.

" Later, in " The Adventure of the Empty House " Holmes refers once to Moriarty as " Professor James Moriarty ".

* In the BBC Radio November 4, 1992 broadcast of " The Final Problem " and the February 24th 1993 broadcast of " The Empty House ", Moriarty was played by Michael Pennington.

* Eric Porter portrayed Professor Moriarty in two episodes of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes: " The Red-Headed League " and " The Final Problem ", and briefly in the Return of Sherlock Holmes episode: " The Empty House ".

* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's " The Adventure of the Speckled Band " ( 1892 ), " The Adventure of the Empty House " ( 1903 ) and " The Problem of Thor Bridge " ( 1922 )

His only solo album, the self-produced Playing to an Empty House, has become a collector's item.

* In June 2010 it was announced that Franklin Watts books, a part of Hachette Children's Books planned to release a series of four children's graphic novels in spring 2011 called Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars set during the three years that Sherlock Holmes was believed dead, between The Adventure of the Final Problem and The Adventure of the Empty House by writer Tony Lee and artist Dan Boultwood.

* 1982: War in an Empty House

Adler assists the Baker Street Irregulars in solving crimes during the " missing Holmes years " between the Conan Doyle short stories, The Final Problem and The Empty House.

Mycroft has appeared or been mentioned in four stories by Doyle: " The Greek Interpreter ", " The Final Problem ", " The Empty House " and " The Bruce-Partington Plans ".

* In the BBC radio dramatisations with Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley, Mycroft was played at various times by Malcolm Graeme, Keith Williams, Felix Felton and-in " The Empty House "-by Carleton Hobbs himself.

The new stories were resumed in 1901, first with a prequel ( The Hound of the Baskervilles ) and then with Holmes actually revived in 1903 ( in The Empty House ).

Habsburg Castle remained the property of the House of Habsburg until 1415, when Duke Frederick IV of the Empty Pockets lost the canton of Aargau to the Swiss Confederacy.

In the original play, the hero was Holmes's enemy Colonel Sebastian Moran of " The Adventure of the Empty House " infamy, not Count Negretto Sylvius.

Holmes soon emerges from his bedroom and explains that the dummy is a decoy designed to fool a would-be gunman, much as was done in " The Adventure of the Empty House ", to which Watson alludes.

But this device failed in its purpose and pressure from fans eventually persuaded Doyle to bring Holmes back, writing The Hound of the Baskervilles ( set before " The Final Problem ") and reviving him in " The Adventure of the Empty House ".

Burke was replaced by Edward Hardwicke until the end of the show's run, starting with the adaptation of " The Empty House " which acted as the first episode of The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

In 1975, DC Comics published Sherlock Holmes # 1, a comic which adapted " The Adventure of the Empty House " and " The Final Problem ".

The 1931 film The Sleeping Cardinal is based in part on " The Adventure of the Empty House " and " The Final Problem.

As in " The Adventure of the Empty House ", it is revealed that Holmes survives in this version, having used his brother's oxygen inhaler to survive the water at the bottom of the falls, but this is not learned until the final moments of the film.

" The Adventure of the Empty House ", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

Doyle ranked " The Adventure of the Empty House " sixth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.

Another hit song associated with McLean ( though never recorded by him ) is " Killing Me Softly with His Song ", which was written about McLean after Lori Lieberman, also a singer / songwriter, saw him singing his composition " Empty Chairs " in concert.

He would release " Cold and Empty ", " Jackson, Mississippi " and " I Am " I Am ( Kid Rock song )

* In the 2005 episodes " The Empty Child " and " The Doctor Dances ", Jack Harkness uses a " sonic blaster ", referred to by Rose Tyler as a " squareness gun ", capable of " digitising " structures by disintegrating them and then reversing the process, among other functions.

In " The Empty Child " ( 2005 ), the Ninth Doctor claimed that he has had " 900 years of phone box travel ", while " The Doctor's Wife " says they've been travelling together for only 700 years.

* Resurrection and " Two Marys with Angel near the Empty Tomb ", panel of a diptych, found in Rome, is made.

* " Diary of an Empty Day ", from Symphonie Espagnole by Édouard Lalo, credited.

Canadian rock group The Weakerthans released their album Reunion Tour in 2007 featuring two songs inspired by and named after Hopper paintings, " Sun in an Empty Room ", and " Night Windows ", and have also referenced him in songs such as " Hospital Vespers ".

*" Running on Empty ", by Jackson Browne

* Mendelsohn, D. " Empty Nest, Abandoned Cave: maternal anxiety in Achilleid 1 ", ClAnt 9. 2 ( 1990 ), 295 – 308.

Her favorite episodes are " Hot Lips & Empty Arms ", " Margaret's Engagement " and " The Nurses ".

Additional characters in popular culture include " Emily " from the television series Empty Nest, " Donna ," from the television series Judging Amy, " Judy Maxwell ," from the film, What's Up, Doc ?, " Brooke ," from The L Word, Season 4, " Catherine ," the serial bride in the film noir release, Black Widow and " Helen Bishop ", the divorcee neighbor from Mad Men.

Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Browne has written and recorded several notable songs throughout his career including " These Days ", " The Pretender ", " Running On Empty ", " Lawyers in Love ", " Doctor My Eyes ", " Take It Easy ", " For a Rocker ", and " Somebody's Baby ".

The 1931 film The Sleeping Cardinal ( also known as Sherlock Holmes ' Fatal Hour ) is loosely based on " The Adventure of the Empty House " and " The Final Problem ".

Elements of " The Adventure of the Empty House " were used in the 1939-1946 Sherlock Holmes series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

The 2009 radio play The Return of Sherlock Holmes, dramatised by M. J. Elliott combines The Empty House and The Final Problem.

In the final scene in the 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, it is revealed that Holmes survives his encounter with Professor Moriarty ( the film is influenced by The Final Problem ), and has led to speculation that the untitled third installment to the film series will be partly influenced by The Empty House

In 1975, DC Comics published Sherlock Holmes # 1, a comic which adapted " The Adventure of the Empty House " and " The Final Problem ".