Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character who is the best known antagonist (and archenemy) of the detective Sherlock Holmes. Widely considered to be the first true example of a supervillain, Moriarty is a criminal mastermind, described by Holmes as the "Napoleon of Crime". (T. S. Eliot would later use the same phrase, in homage, to describe Macavity in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.) Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, lifted the phrase from a real Scotland Yard inspector who was referring to Adam Worth, a true-life (though non-violent) model for Moriarty. Professor Moriarty, public domain illustration by Signey Paget This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... A Paget illustration of Sherlock Holmes (right) and Dr. Watson. ... Alice, a fictional character based on a real character from the work of Lewis Carroll. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ... Doctor Doom, one of the most archetypal supervillains and his arch-enemies The Fantastic Four (in background). ... Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (born Napoleone di Buonaparte, changed his name to Napoléon Bonaparte)[1] (15 August 1769; Ajaccio, Corsica – 5 May 1821; Saint Helena) was a general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul (Premier Consul) of the French Republic from... Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965), was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. ... Macavity is a fictional character who is described in a poem in Old Possums Book of Practical Cats, by T. S. Eliot. ... Old Possums Book of Practical Cats is a set of whimsical poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology. ... Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859–7 July 1930) was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. ... Adam Worth (1844-1902) was a German-born gentleman criminal. ...

Appearance in Doyle's fiction

Professor Moriarty first appeared in Conan Doyle's tale The Final Problem, in which Holmes, on the verge of delivering a fatal blow to Moriarty's criminal organization, is forced to flee to the Continent to escape Moriarty's retribution. Moriarty follows, and the two apparently fall to their deaths whilst locked in mortal combat atop the Reichenbach Falls. During this story, Moriarty is something of a Mafia Godfather; he protects nearly all of the criminals of England in exchange for their obedience and a share in their profits. Holmes, by his own account, was originally led to Moriarty by the suggestion that many of the crimes he perceived were not the spontaneous work of random criminals, but the machinations of a vast and subtle criminal ring. Holmes and Moriarty fighting over the Reichenbach Falls. ... The Reichenbach Falls (Reichenbachfall) in Meiringen, Switzerland, have a total drop of 250 m (656 ft). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Moriarty plays a direct role in only one other of Conan Doyle's Holmes stories: The Valley of Fear, which was set before The Final Problem, but published afterwards. In The Valley of Fear, Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty's agents from committing a murder. Moriarty does not meet Holmes, but sends him a note of commiseration at the end. In an episode where Moriarty is interviewed by a policeman, a painting is described as hanging on the wall; its title, "La Jeune a l'Agneau" translated to "The young one has the lamb" is a witty pun upon the name of Thomas Agnew of the gallery Thomas Agnew and Sons, who had a famous painting stolen by Adam Worth, but was unable to prove the fact. The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... It has been suggested that Lambing be merged into this article or section. ...

Holmes mentions Moriarty reminiscently in five other stories: The Empty House (the immediate sequel to The Final Problem), The Norwood Builder, The Missing Three-Quarter, The Illustrious Client, and His Last Bow. More obliquely, a 1908 mystery by Doyle, The Lost Special, features a criminal genius who could be Moriarty (and a detective who could be Holmes), although neither are mentioned by name. 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. ... The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the second tale from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. ... The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter, 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. ... The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. ... His Last Bow is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection. ... The Lost Special (1932) is a Universal movie serial based on the book The Lost Special by Arthur Conan Doyle. ...

Viktor Yevgrafov as professor Moriarty in Igor Maslennikov's TV series.

Although Moriarty only appeared in two of the sixty Sherlock Holmes tales by Conan Doyle, Holmes's attitude to him in those two stories has gained him the popular impression of being Holmes's nemesis, and he has been frequently used in later stories by other authors, parodies, and in other media. In fact, among casual Holmes fans it is commonly assumed that the real overall plot arc of the Holmes stories is the war that the detective wages with Moriarty, who oversees the crimes that Holmes foils.^{[citation needed]} Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Igor Fyodorovich Maslennikov (Russian: ) (b. ... In episodic storytelling media such as television, comic books and comic strips a story arc is an extended or continuing storyline. ...

In the Conan Doyle stories, narrated by Holmes's assistant Dr. Watson, Watson never meets Moriarty (only getting distant glimpses of him in "The Final Problem"), and relies upon Holmes to relate accounts of the detective's battle with the criminal. In stories by other writers, Watson has encountered Moriarty more often. Dr. John H. Watson is a fictional character, the sidekick of Sherlock Holmes, the fictional 19th century detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle. ...

Conan Doyle himself is inconsistent on Watson's familiarity with Moriarty. In "The Final Problem", Watson tells Holmes he has never heard of Moriarty. But in The Valley of Fear, set earlier on, Watson already knows of him as 'the famous scientific criminal'.

Eric Porter played Moriarty in Granada Television's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1985).

Moriarty's weapon of choice was the "air-rifle", a unique weapon constructed for the Professor by a blind German mechanic, von Herder, and used by his employee Colonel Sebastian Moran. It closely resembled a cane, allowing for easy concealment, and made very little noise when fired, making it ideal for sniping; the weapon became infamous for being Moriarty's favorite tool. Image File history File links Eric_Porter_as_Moriarty. ... Image File history File links Eric_Porter_as_Moriarty. ... Eric Richard Porter (April 8, 1928 - May 15, 1995) was a distinguished English actor who appeared on stage as well as in cinema and television. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the name given to the series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company Granada Television between 1984 and 1994, although only the first two series bore that title on screen. ... Colonel Sebastian Moran is the villain of the Sherlock Holmes short story The Empty House , he is self-employed but has worked for the late unlamented Professor James Moriarty. ... This article is about the military occupation. ...

Holmes described Moriarty as follows:

"He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem, which has had a European vogue. On the strength of it he won the mathematical chair at one of our smaller universities, and had, to all appearances, a most brilliant career before him.

But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. A criminal strain ran in his blood, which, instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers. Dark rumours gathered round him in the University town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and come down to London..." In the fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes is the great detective, Professor James Moriarty is his evil archenemy, and A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem is a brilliant work of mathematics by the young Moriarty. ... A chair or seat is also a seat of office, authority, or dignity, such as the chairperson of a committee, or a professorship at a college or university, or the individual that presides over business proceedings. ...

—Holmes, "The Final Problem"

Holmes also states that Moriarty has written the book The Dynamics of an Asteroid, describing it as "a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticising it". The Dynamics of An Asteroid is a fictional book by Professor James Moriarty, the implacible foe of Sherlock Holmes. ...

Doyle's original motive in creating Moriarty was evidently his intention to kill Holmes off. As is well known, "The Final Problem" was intended to be exactly what its name says; Doyle sought to sweeten the pill a little bit by letting Holmes go in a blaze of glory, having rid the world of a criminal so powerful and dangerous that any further task would be trivial in comparison (as Holmes says in the story itself). Moriarty only appeared in one book because, quite simply, having him constantly escape would discredit Holmes, and would be less satisfying. Valley of Fear changes this.

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A point of interest is that the "high, domed forehead" was seen as the sign of a prodigious intellect during Conan Doyle's time. In giving Moriarty this trait, which had already appeared in both Sherlock Holmes and the detective's brother Mycroft, Conan Doyle may have intended to portray Moriarty as a man having an intellect equal or greater than that of Holmes– thus as the only man capable of defeating him. In human anatomy, the forehead or brow is the bony part of the head above the eyes. ... For other uses, see Sign (disambiguation). ... Mycroft Holmes as depicted by Sidney Edward Paget in Strand Magazine Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character in the stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. ...

Simon Newcomb and other real world role models

Simon Newcomb

In addition to the master criminal Adam Worth, there has been much speculation^[1] among astronomers and Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts that Doyle based his fictional character Moriarty on the American astronomer Simon Newcomb. Newcomb was certainly a multi-talented genius, with a special mastery of mathematics, and he had become internationally famous in the years before Doyle began writing his stories. More pointedly, Newcomb had earned a reputation for spite and malice, apparently seeking to destroy the careers and reputations of rival scientists. Download high resolution version (925x1096, 98 KB) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Download high resolution version (925x1096, 98 KB) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Simon Newcomb. ... Adam Worth (1844-1902) was a German-born gentleman criminal. ... Simon Newcomb. ...

Gauss' portrait published in Astronomische Nachrichten 1828

Srinivasa Ramanujan

George Boole

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Professor Moriarty's reputed feats might also have been inspired by the accomplishments of real world mathematicians. If the names of the papers are reversed, they describe real mathematical events. Carl Friedrich Gauss wrote a famous paper on the dynamics of an asteroid^[2] in his early 20s, which certainly had a European vogue, and was appointed to a chair partly on the strength of this result. Srinivasa Ramanujan wrote about generalizations of the binomial theorem, and earned a reputation as a genius by writing articles that confounded the best extant mathematicians. Gauss's story was well known in Doyle's time, and Ramanujan's story unfolded at Cambridge from early 1913 to mid 1914^[3] The Valley of Fear, which contains the comment about maths so abstruse that no-one could criticise it, was published in September 1914. Des MacHale, in his George Boole : his life and work (1985, Boole Press) suggests that George Boole may have been a model for Moriarty. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 508 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (655 × 773 pixel, file size: 250 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 508 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (655 × 773 pixel, file size: 250 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A common picture of the mathematician File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A common picture of the mathematician File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Not to be confused with George Boolos. ... Download high resolution version (1000x1569, 223 KB)Gallows ticket for the hanging of Jonathan Wild. ... Download high resolution version (1000x1569, 223 KB)Gallows ticket for the hanging of Jonathan Wild. ... Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (pronounced ,  ; in German usually Gauß, Latin: ) (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, electrostatics, astronomy, and optics. ... Ramanujan redirects here. ... The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Desmond Des MacHale is a full-time associate professor of mathematics at University College Cork, Ireland. ... Not to be confused with George Boolos. ...

The model which Conan Doyle himself mentions (through Sherlock Holmes) in "The Valley of Fear" is the London arch-criminal of the eighteenth century, Jonathan Wild. He mentions this when seeking to compare Moriarty to a real-world character that Inspector Alec MacDonald might know, but it is in vain as MacDonald is not so well read as Holmes. A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ... The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Jonathan Wild in the condemned cell at Newgate Prison Jonathan Wild (baptised 6 May 1683–24 May 1725) was perhaps the most famous criminal of London — and possibly Great Britain — during the 18th century, both because of his own actions and the uses novelists, playwrights, and political satirists made of...

Moriarty's family

The stories give a number of indications about the Professor's family, some seemingly contradictory.

In The Valley of Fear, Holmes says of him: "He is unmarried. His younger brother is a station master in the west of England." In The Final Problem, Watson refers to "the recent letters in which Colonel James Moriarty defends the memory of his brother." The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... The Adventure of the Final Problem is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. ...

In neither story are we told the Professor's own first name; it is only in The Empty House that Holmes refers to Professor James Moriarty. In his play, William Gillette gives his Moriarty the Christian name "Robert". 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. ...

The question of how many Moriarty brothers this makes, and which of them is called James, has provided much amusement for Sherlock Holmes fans in the years since the stories were first published.

Moriarty in popular culture

• Henry Daniell appeared as Professor Moriarty in The Woman in Green.
• In a 2006 comic book story featuring Lee Falk's The Phantom, the 19th Phantom has to fight Professor Moriarty. The climax of the story features the Phantom and Moriarty falling down a waterfall in the Bangalla jungles. At the end of the story, Moriarty is shown to be alive, as he returns to London to find "a detective named Sherlock Holmes".

A publicity shot of Henry Daniell in the 1940s

• The arch-villain in the Canadian television programme, The Adventures of Shirley Holmes is a teenage criminal mastermind named Molly Hardy.

• In Nicholas Meyer's 1976 novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Professor Moriarty is portrayed as Holmes's childhood mathematics tutor, a whining little man with a guilty secret. He is incensed to hear that Holmes, apparently under the influence of cocaine, has depicted him as a criminal mastermind. Because of Holmes' worsening condition, and Moriarty's threats to tell the authorities about Holmes' addiction, Dr. Watson seeks the help of Sigmund Freud, who uncovers the truth behind Holmes' perception of "the Napoleon of Crime". This is one of many works to seize on the fact that Moriarty never actually shows his face in the Holmes canon. The novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution was made into a 1976 film and starred Lord Laurence Olivier as Professor Moriarty.

• Michael Kurland has written a series of novels in which Moriarty is the hero: His organisation of crime is the method by which he raises the money required for his experimental physics apparatus. In the first book of the series, The Infernal Device, he foils a plot against Queen Victoria, reluctantly allying with Sherlock Holmes.

• John Gardner has writtern two novels featuring the arch-villain, The Return of Moriarty, in which the Professor, like Holmes, is shown to have survived the meeting at the Reichenbach, and The Revenge of Moriarty. In these two novels, Moriarty is depicted as a Victorian-era Al Capone or Don Corleone, single-handedly controlling London's organized crime structure. Originally planned as a trilogy, the third book has never been published, but there have been indications, since Gardner's death on 7 August 2007, that it may appear posthumously.

• A computer simulation of Professor Moriarty, played by actor Daniel Davis, appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Elementary, Dear Data" and "Ship in a Bottle". For a bet, Data, posing as Holmes on the holodeck, proposed to solve a Holmes-style mystery, but when Geordi La Forge asked the computer create a foe, he requested one "capable of defeating Data" (as opposed to Holmes). The computer gave Moriarty self-awareness and the ability to manipulate the holodeck's controls. In doing so, Moriarty seized control of the Starship Enterprise, but was convinced to release control and be stored in the ship's memory when he learned that he could not leave the holodeck. Freed from the ship's memory in the latter episode, he again took over the Enterprise. Trapping Picard, Data and Lieutenant Barclay in a holographic duplicate of the ship, Moriarty blackmailed the crew into figuring out a way of allowing him to leave the ship with his mistress Countess Regina Bartholomew. However, the three trapped crewmembers programmed the holodeck on the false holographic Enterprise to create a holographic simulation of the outside world, leaving Moriarty and the Countess unwittingly stored in a memory module.

• The 1988 comedy Without a Clue, revolving around the premise that Holmes is a fictional creation of Watson's, and Watson is the real crime solving genius, featured Moriarty as the main villain.

• Moriarty appeared in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: having survived his final encounter with Sherlock Holmes he went on to become the head of British Intelligence under the code-name "M" (a nod to the James Bond novels and films). He instigated the creation of the League as a covert ops unit with plausible deniability. Following his supposed death (indicated, but not clearly portrayed, as he "falls" into the sky, due to the anti-gravity mineral, cavorite) in the midst of a gang war with Fu Manchu, he was succeeded as "M" by Mycroft Holmes. The film of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen also included Moriarty, but with a more supervillain-style take on the character. Based on the time-honored "disfigured villain under the mask" theme (such as the French characters Fantômas and the Phantom of the Opera, or the Marvel Comics character Dr Doom), Moriarty disguises himself with a silver mask and face paint, giving him the appearance of having been badly wounded in a fire of some kind.

• Professor Nefarious, the foe of the Disney comics Sherlock Holmes parody The Sleuth, is an obvious spoof of Moriarty.

• In the 1986 Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective, the villain, Professor Ratigan, played the Moriarty role opposite Basil of Baker Street in the Holmes role.

• In T.S.Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, the villain Macavity has a personality and appearance (tall and thin, with sunken eyes, a highly domed head, and snake-like head movemements) obviously based on Moriarty

• The Darkwing Duck TV series (1991-1993) featured a mole-themed villain named Professor Moliarty, an obvious parody/homage.

• The 1950s radio comedy the Goon show had, as one of its principal characters, an incompetent 'Criminal Mastermind' named Count Jim Moriarty.

• The PC game Eagle Eye Mysteries features a character named Mark Moriarty - he is a high school student who is at the heart of many of the mysteries the player has to solve. In one mystery, on the subject of Sherlock Holmes, he actually mentions that he has the same name as Holmes' nemesis.

• In No Reason, an episode of House, Dr House is shot by a man named Jack Moriarty. The television show contains many other similarities between its titular character and the famous detective.

• In Neil Gaiman's short story "A Study in Emerald", Moriarty and Holmes reverse roles. Moriarty (who, though never named as such in the story, is identified as the author of Dynamics of an Asteroid) is hired to investigate a murder. The murder has apparently been carried out by Sherlock Holmes (who signs his name Rache, an allusion to Doyle's first novella starring Holmes and Watson, A Study in Scarlet, in which the word Rache — German for revenge — is found written above the body of a murder victim) and Dr. Watson. The story is narrated by Colonel Sebastian Moran, given the rank of Major (Ret.) by Gaiman.

• Moriarty was also seen in PC game Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, in which Moriarty has survived the falls of Reichenbach and is in weak condition in a mental hospital.

• A similar character appeared in the Solar Pons series, which was a pastiche of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The Moriarty figure was Baron Knoll, a German spy and a socialite who appeared in only two stories (much like Moriarty).

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References

The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan is the biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel. ...

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A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ... Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859–7 July 1930) was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. ... A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1887. ... The Sign of Four (1890) was the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally serialized in the Strand Magazine in 1901 and 1902, which is set largely on Dartmoor in 1889. ... The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Image File history File links Paget_holmes. ... The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. ... The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle. ... The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. ... His Last Bow is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection. ... The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final collection of Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Irene Adler is a fictional character featured in the Sherlock Holmes story A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in July, 1891. ... Inspector Bradstreet is a fictional Scotland Yard detective from Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes series. ... Tobias Gregson, a Scotland Yard inspector, is a fictional character who has appeared in a number of the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Mycroft Holmes as depicted by Sidney Edward Paget in Strand Magazine Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character in the stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. ... A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ... Inspector Stanley Hopkins is a Scotland Yard detective in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Inspector Lestrade arresting a suspect, by Sidney Paget Inspector Lestrade in the Granada television series Inspector Lestrade is a Scotland Yard detective appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Colonel Sebastian Moran is the villain of the Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Empty House. ... beware pie man beware pie man beware pie man beware pie man beware pie man beware pie man beware pie man beware pie man beware pie man beware pie man beware pie man beware pie man beware pie man beware pie man beware pie man beware pie man beware pie... Dr Watson (left) and Sherlock Holmes, by Sidney Paget. ... Traditionally, the canon of Sherlock Holmes consists of the 56 short stories and 4 novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... 221B Baker Street is the fictional London residence of the detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Sherlockiana compasses: Memorabilia, such as statuettes, drawings, and movie posters, that concern the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, his associates such as Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade, and his dwellings at 221B Baker Street; Non-canonical fiction, not written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, that relates to these characters and their...

External links

• Professor Moriarty article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
• The Final Problem - in easy to read HTML format.
• The Valley of Fear - in easy to read HTML format.
• Sherlock Holmes Public Library