Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles

UK: Titan Books, 2011, PB.
ISBN: 0857682830
ISBN-13: 978-0857680839

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Imagine the twisted evil twins of Holmes and Watson and you have the dangerous duo of Professor James Moriarty – wily, snake-like, fiercely intelligent, terrifyingly unpredictable – and Colonel Sebastian ‘Basher’ Moran – violent, politically incorrect, debauched. Together they run London crime, owning police and criminals alike.

A one-stop shop for all things illegal, from murder to high-class heists, Moriarty and Moran have a stream of nefarious visitors to their conduit Street rooms, from the Christian zealots of the American West, to the bloodthirsty Si Fan and Les Vampires of Paris, as well as a certain Miss Irene Adler…

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‘Only an idiot guesses or reasons or deduces,’ the Professor said, patiently.  He withdrew, which meant I could breathe again and become aware of how much pain I was in.  ‘No one comes into these rooms unless I know everything about him that can be found out through the simple means of asking behind his back.  The public record is easily filled in by looking in any one of a number of reference books, from the Army Guide to Who’s Who.  But all the interesting material comes from a man’s enemies.  I am not a conjurer, Colonel Moran.  I am a scientist.’’