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    James Moriarty was a British professor of mathematics who became a criminal mastermind and the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes. He turned to a life of crime, becoming the most dangerous criminal Holmes had ever encountered as the "Napoleon of crime" and "Consulting Criminal" who organized much of the evil in London. In a final confrontation between Holmes and Moriarty, they fought atop Reichenbach Falls, and both Moriarty and Holmes apparently fell to their deaths. Moriarty played a direct role in only two of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories but has remained one of the most famous villains in literature.

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    James Moriarty was a British professor of mathematics who became a criminal mastermind and the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes. He turned to a life of crime, becoming the most dangerous criminal Holmes had ever encountered as the "Napoleon of crime" and "Consulting Criminal" who organized much of the evil in London. In a final confrontation between Holmes and Moriarty, they fought atop Reichenbach Falls, and both Moriarty and Holmes apparently fell to their deaths. Moriarty played a direct role in only two of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories but has remained one of the most famous villains in literature.

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    James Moriarty was a British professor of mathematics who became a criminal mastermind and the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes. He turned to a life of crime, becoming the most dangerous criminal Holmes had ever encountered as the "Napoleon of crime" and "Consulting Criminal" who organized much of the evil in London. In a final confrontation between Holmes and Moriarty, they fought atop Reichenbach Falls, and both Moriarty and Holmes apparently fell to their deaths. Moriarty played a direct role in only two of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories but has remained one of the most famous villains in literature.

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    This article is for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character.

    For other versions


    of the character see Versions of James Moriarty.

    James Moriarty

    Pd Moriarty by Sidney Paget

    Vital statistics

    Sex Male

    Died 4 May, 1891

    Nationality British

    Family Colonel James Moriarty (brother)

    Occupation Mathematician

    Professor

    Criminal mastermind

    Behind the scenes

    Appearances "The Final Problem"

    The Valley of Fear

    "His Last Bow" (mentioned)

    "He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is


    evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius,
    a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He
    sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a
    thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them."

    ―Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson speaking about Professor Moriarty


    [src]

    Professor James Moriarty, the arch-enemy of the famous Detective


    Sherlock Holmes, a mathematics professor turned the world's only
    consulting criminal. His genius is equal to, if not perhaps greater than,
    Holmes himself.
    Despite only appearing in two stories, Moriarty has been proven to be
    the most dangerous of all criminals that Holmes has ever encountered.
    In the short story "The Adventure of the Final Problem", during a fight
    with Holmes above the Reichenbach Falls, Moriarty fell to his death.

    Biography

    Professor Moriarty's first appearance and his ultimate end occurred in


    Doyle's story "The Final Problem", in which Holmes, on the verge of
    delivering a fatal blow to Moriarty's criminal ring, is forced to flee to the
    Continent to escape retribution. The criminal mastermind follows, and
    the pursuit ends atop the Reichenbach Falls, during which, Moriarty falls
    to his death while fighting with Holmes. During this story, Moriarty is
    depicted as 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. In such a way, he is described as a Consulting
    Criminal, the opposite of Holmes, a Consulting Detective.

    Moriarty plays a direct role in only one other of 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 in this story. In an episode where Moriarty is interviewed
    by a policeman, a painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze is described as
    hanging on the wall; Holmes remarks on another work by the same
    painter to show it could not have been purchased on a professor's
    salary. The work referred to is La jeune fille à l'agneau; some
    commentators have described this as a pun by Doyle 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.

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