page_title: Professor Moriarty
hierarchical_section_title: Professor Moriarty
caption_attribution_description: English: Professor Moriarty. From the Sherlock Holmes story "The Final Problem", which appeared in The Strand Magazine in December, 1893. Original caption was "PROFESSOR MORIARTY STOOD BEFORE ME.".Français&#160;: Le professeur Moriarty. Illustration de Sidney Paget pour Le Dernier Problème d'Arthur Conan Doyle, nouvelle publiée dans The Strand Magazine en décembre 1893.Português: Professor Moriarty, como imaginado por Paget.
context_page_description: Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character in some of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Moriarty is a machiavellian criminal mastermind whom Holmes describes as the "Napoleon of crime". Doyle lifted the phrase from a Scotland Yard inspector who was referring to Adam Worth, a real-life criminal mastermind and one of the individuals upon whom the character of Moriarty was based. The character was introduced primarily as a narrative device to enable Doyle to kill Sherlock Holmes, and he only featured in two of the Sherlock Holmes stories. However, in adaptations, he has often been given a greater prominence and treated as Sherlock Holmes's archenemy.
context_section_description: Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character in some of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Moriarty is a machiavellian criminal mastermind whom Holmes describes as the "Napoleon of crime". Doyle lifted the phrase from a Scotland Yard inspector who was referring to Adam Worth, a real-life criminal mastermind and one of the individuals upon whom the character of Moriarty was based. The character was introduced primarily as a narrative device to enable Doyle to kill Sherlock Holmes, and he only featured in two of the Sherlock Holmes stories. However, in adaptations, he has often been given a greater prominence and treated as Sherlock Holmes's archenemy.
caption: Professor Moriarty, illustration by Sidney Paget which accompanied the original publication of "The Final Problem"
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