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  2. 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.

  3. Oct 30, 2022 · Professor James Moriarty, the archnemesis of Sherlock Holmes, has a considerable legacy in popular fiction. Here is your guide to the character.

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  4. Nov 16, 2022 · Professor James Moriarty was “Jim” Moriarty in Sherlock and was the epitome of chaos in the way that many modern adaptations of the character are. While Sherlock is about order and...

  5. Mar 23, 2023 · Usually, when you hear the name “Professor Moriarty,” Sherlock Holmes is what comes to mind. After all, Moriarty is the nemesis of the famous detective. He’s one of the few people able to outwit Holmes. But James Moriarty was also Data’s nemesis in Star Trek.

  6. Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character in some of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. [1] Moriarty is a criminal mastermind whom Holmes describes as the " Napoleon of crime". Doyle got the phrase from a Scotland Yard inspector.

  7. Mar 30, 2021 · The character of Professor James Moriarty makes quite an impression. However, for all his notoriety he appears in surprisingly few Sherlock Holmes stories. Was Moriarty based on the real-life criminal, Adam Worth?

  8. Jan 24, 2017 · In the Conan Doyle story, "The Final Problem", Sherlock Holmes describes Moriarty, "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 upon the binomial theorem which has had a European vogue.

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