The Mammoth Book of the Adventures of Professor Moriarty: 37 Short Stories about the Secret Life of Sherlock Holmes's Nemesis

✍ Scribed by Maxim Jakubowski (ed)

• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 377 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 1510709509

✦ Synopsis

The hidden life of Sherlock Holmes's most famous adversary is reimagined and revealed by the finest crime writers today. Some of literature's greatest supervillains have also become its most intriguing antiheroes--Dracula, Hannibal Lecter, Lord Voldemort, and Norman Bates--figures that capture our imagination. Perhaps the greatest of these is Professor James Moriarty. Fiercely intelligent and a relentless schemer, Professor Moriarty is the perfect foil to the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, whose crime-solving acumen could only be as brilliant as Moriarty's cunning. While ""the Napoleon of crime.";Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Moriarty and the Two-Body Problem; A Good Mind's Fate; Everything Flows and Nothing Stays; A Scandalous Calculation; Dynamics of an Asteroid; The Importance of Porlock; How the Professor Taught a Lesson to the Gnoles; The Swimming Lesson; The Malady of the Mind Doctor; Obsession; The Box; Jacques the Giant Slayer; Rosenlaui; The Protégé; A Scandal in Arabia; The Mystery of the Missing Child; The Case of the Choleric Cotton Broker; The Last of his Kind; A Problem of Numbers; The Fulham Strangler; The Adventure of the Lost Theorem

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