Book description
'He is the Napoleon of Crime...He is the organiser of half that is evil
and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city'. A man like
Sherlock Holmes has many enemies. Violent murderers, deviant villains,
ghosts of old loves, blackmailers and poisonous scribes, to to name but
a few. But none are so deadly, so powerful, as Professor Moriarty.
Moriarty - the only man who can compete with Holmes' genius. The only
man who can, perhaps, ultimately defeat the great detective ... Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a
doctor by trade; optician more specifically. It is rumoured that during
his off periods of work he would think about and write his various
stories. He is well known for several science fiction works, but of
course his most recognizable works are the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. He
died in 1930. He tried desperately to "kill off" Holmes so
that he could pursue other genres of writing as well, and not just be
known for the Holmes mysteries. However, after much public outcry,
Holmes returned in "The Empty House" and in many other stories
following, up to the "Case Book of Sherlock Holmes"
collection.
