The Infernal Device & Others: A Professor Moriarty Omnibus

✍ Scribed by Kurland, Michael

• Book ID: 106968861
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 330 KB
• Series: Professor Moriarty 1-02
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0031225273

✦ Synopsis

Since their original appearanc more than two decades ago, Michael Kurland's two novels feature Professor James Moriarty--The Infernal Device and Death by Gaslight--have been among the most acclaimed of the works based on the characters first introduced by Authur Conan Doyle. In Doyle's original stories, Professor Moriarty is the bete noire of Sherlock Holmes, who deems the professor his mental equivalent and ethical opposite, declares him ''the Napoleon of Crime, '' and wrestles him seemingly to their mutual deaths at Reichenbach Falls. But indeed there are two sides to every story, and while Moriarty may not always tread strictly on the side of the law, he is also, in these novels, not quite about the person that Holmes and Watson made him out to be. In Kurland's fictions about Moriarty, the truth is finally revealed: