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“He is the Napoleon of Crime…He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city.”
A man like Sherlock Holmes has many enemies. Violent murderers, deviant villains, ghosts of old loves, blackmailers and poisonous scribes, to to name but a few. But none are so deadly, so powerful, as Professor Moriarty. Moriarty – the only man who can compete with Holmes’ genius, the first great criminal mastermind. The only man who can, perhaps, ultimately defeat the great detective …
Another collection of short stories, the 12 stories were similarly published over the course of a year from 1892 to 1893 in The Strand Magazine. Conan Doyle had decided that this would be the last of the Holmes stories, intending to kill off his bestselling character.
