'Moriarty In Memoirs Of Sherlock'

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Professor Moriarty was Sherlock Holmes's arch-enemy from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle series of Sherlock Holmes. Moriarty appears in The Final Problem from the book "Memoirs of Sherlock" where he fights Sherlock on the top of Reichenbach falls. He is mentioned in the books "His Last Bow" and "The Valley of Fear". Professor Moriarty was a good villian because he was a mathemtic pshycopath, consulting criminal, and obsessed with destroying Sherlock Holmes. Professor Moriarty was a pshycopath who was a math genuis. In the story, The Final Problem, Moriarty says to Sherlock (Sherlock is retelling the conversation he had to John), " 'Well, well,' said he at last. 'It seems a pity, but I have done what I could. I know every move of your game. You can do nothing before Monday. It has been a duel between you and me, Mr. Holmes. You hope to place me in the dock. I tell you that I will never stand in the dock. You hope to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me. If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much for you.' " This is one quote is enough to scary anyone and to leave the impression of the person who is a crazy. Sherlock had previously told John that Moriarty was a retired math professor. He was a consulting criminal. At the …show more content…
When Sherlock is talking to John about his conversation with Moriarty, he says to John (restating what Moriarty had said to him), " 'If you were clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you.' " Since Sherlock was slow ripping Moriarty's web of criminals, Moriarty was planning to kill Sherlock. If you have watch BBC Sherlock, then you know that during the pool sence, Moriarty tells Sherlock that he is in the way, so he is going to burn out Sherlock's heart. The reason Moriarty wanted to get Sherlock out of the way is because Sherlock is the only person who has come closest to the Consulting

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