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Last Updated on March 30, 2021 – Originally published in February of 2015

The character of Professor James Moriarty makes quite an impression.  However, for all his notoriety, he appears in surprisingly few Sherlock Holmes stories.

Moriarty only directly appears in two stories, The Final Problem and The Valley of Fear.

He’s mentioned in five other stories, The Empty House, The Norwood Builder, The Missing Three-Quarter, The Illustrious Client, and His Last Bow.

According to Sherlock Holmes in The Final Problem, Moriarty is rather like a Victorian mafia leader.  Not only that, but Moriarty is incredibly intelligent.

Holmes says Moriarty,

“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 s

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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

Occupation:

Mathematician
Professor
Criminal mastermind

"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, who was previously a mathematics professor but turned into a mastermind criminal. His genius is acknowledged by even Holmes himself to be on par with him.

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 Prob

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Professor Moriarty

Fictional character from Sherlock Holmes stories

Fictional character

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 Adventure of the Final Problem", first published in The Strand Magazine in December 1893. He also plays a role in the final Sherlock Holmes novel The Valley of Fear, but without a direct appearance. Holmes mentions Moriarty in five other stories: "The Adventure of the Empty House", "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter", "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client", and "His Last Bow".

Moriarty is a criminal mastermind who uses his intelligence and resources to provide criminals with crime strategies and sometimes protection from the law, all in exchange for a fee or a cut of profit. Holmes likens Moriar