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  1. Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character and criminal mastermind created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be a formidable enemy for the author's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. He was created primarily as a device by which Doyle could kill Holmes and end the hero's stories. Professor Moriarty first appears in the short story "The ...

  2. Oct 30, 2022 · But Dr. Watson mentions a brother at the beginning of that story, a Colonel James Moriarty, who is attempting to defend his sibling's reputation. Curiously, when Holmes returns in "The Adventure of the Empty House” (via Camden House ), he gives Professor Moriarty a given name — and it is also James. And in the Holmes novel "The Valley of ...

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  3. Arthur Conan Doyle (born May 22, 1859, Edinburgh, Scotland—died July 7, 1930, Crowborough, Sussex, England) was a Scottish writer best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes —one of the most vivid and enduring characters in English fiction. Conan Doyle, the second of Charles Altamont and Mary Foley Doyle’s 10 children ...

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  4. In the Sherlock Holmes stories Professor Moriarty, by Sidney Paget (The Strand Magazine, 1893) Description. His name was James Moriarty (EMPT, 406). He had a brother with the same first name, colonel James Moriarty. (FINA, 4) He was extremely tall and thin, his forehead domed out in a white curve, and his two eyes were deeply sunken in his head.

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  6. Oct 30, 2023 · Emily Martin. October 30, 2023. There are few characters as dastardly and sinister as Arthur Conan Doyle’s James Moriarty. When we think of cunning detectives, we think of Sherlock Holmes. And when we think of evil masterminds, it's Moriarty all the way. Professor James Moriarty is the only villain sharp enough to outwit the greatest ...

  7. Aug 12, 2020 · Moriarty’s obsession with Sherlock peaked when he came up with a very elaborate plan to bring Sherlock down and destroy his reputation, which began with simultaneously breaking into the Tower of London, HMP Pentonville, and the Bank of England, and then turning himself in. Just like Sherlock’s, Moriarty’s mind was very complex, and he got ...

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