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Colonel Sebastian Moran

See also Empt and Fina

C10018. -- A3532. Andrew, C. R. "The Strange Case of Colonel Moran," Two Baker Street Akronisms. Summitt,
N.J.: The Pamphlet House, 1945. p. 3-6.
"An explanation of the circumstances which enabled the big-game hunter to escape the toils." (Edgar W. Smith)

C10019. -- A3533. Bigelow, S. Tupper. "Two Canonical Problems Solved," BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 4 (1959),
261-271.
Patience Moran, the niece of Jabez Wilson and Col. Moran, witnessed the killing in Bosc but remained silent to
protect her father's post as lodge keeper. As Wilson's maid she ignored the regular disposal of earth from his
house, having been told that she was to be surprised with a new billiard room built in the basement. Moran was
still alive in Illu for lack of any real evidence to convict him of Adair's murder or of the attempted murder of
Holmes.

C10020. -- A3534. Clarkson, Stephen. The Man-Eater of Jahlreel, or The Adventure of a Heavy Game Hunter in
India. Baltimore, Md.: The American Press, Inc., February 1970. 7 p.
Limited to 250 numbered copies.
"Being a transcription of an original manuscript found in a portmanteau said to have belonged to the
famous Shikari, author, and military officer, Colonel Sebastian Moran, formerly of the First Bangalore Pioneers."

C10021. -- A3535. Jopson, I. "Someday," SOS, 4, No. 1 (January 1970), 7-8.

A startling revelation by Moran that the Master was "a two-faced devil"--his friend, Professor Moriarty, and his
worst enemy, Sherlock Holmes.

C10022. -- A3536. Kogan, Richard. "...An Honourable Soldier," BSJ, 9, No. 4 (October 1959), 226.
A denial of Pete Williams's suggestion (BSJ, April 1959) that "powerful pressures" saved Moran from the gallows.

C10023. -- A3537. Smith, Edgar W. "Old Shikari: Prolegomena to a Memoir of Colonel Sebastian Moran," The
Best of the Pips. Westchester County, N.Y.: The Five Orange Pips, 1955. p. 25-34.
----------. ----------, Baker Street and Beyond: Together with Some Trifling Monographs. Morristown, N.J.: The
Baker Street Irregulars, 1957. [unpaged]
"The career of such an evil giant warrants, in all conscience, a more detailed and a more definitive exposition
than these prolegomena can afford; yet it may be hoped that enough evidence has been adduced, from the
fragmentary data we possess, to suggest the solid place he merits in the world's hierarchy of crime."

C10024. -- B1617. Clarkson, Steve. "Colonel Moran Revisited," HP, 1, No. 1 (Summer 1971), 2-5.
Analyzes the possible crimes with which he could have been charged after the events in Empt. The evidence
supporting each charge is weighed, and the conclusion is that Moran would probably have drawn a
comparatively short prison term for the crimes it could be proven he committed, which would account for
Holmes's allusion to "the living Colonel Sebastian Moran" in Illu some eight years later.

C10025. -- B1618. Donnelson, Gar. "The Second Most Dangerous Man in Peshawar," BSJ, 26, No. 3
(September 1976), 152-153.
The title alludes to Moran's stay with Her Majesty's White Hussars near the Khyber Pass during his flight from
Holmes after Reichenbach Falls. Rudyard Kipling, in "The Man Who Was," tells of Moran's disguise as the

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Russian correspondent Dirkovitch, and of Holmes's appearance as an exhausted Afghan. Through connivance of
the Hussars, Holmes was able to recover and continue the chase.

C10026. -- B1619. McQueen, Ian. "A Break for Colonel Moran," Sherlock Holmes Detected: The Problems of the
Long Stories. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, [1974]. p. 208-212.
----------. ----------, [Rev.] SHJ, 12, No. 2 (Winter 1975), 59-61.
The colonel escaped being sent to the gallows for the murder of Ronald Adair because evidence was
suppressed at the trial to cover Moran's association with Lord Balmoral, identified as the Prince of Wales, who
had played cards with the murderer (Empt).

C10027. -- B1620. Pollock, Donald K. "`Colonel Moran Will Trouble Us No More ...,'" BSJ, 22, No. 2 (June 1972),
101-103.
Light is shed on the activities of Col. Moran from 1895 to 1902. Moran assumed leadership of the Moriarty
criminal organization (Thrush?) and expanded the realm of crime to include the continent. He developed an
interest in cryptography. Evidence entered in support was the presence of a Capt. Marvin in Paris in 1895,
statements by Holmes in various adventures, and suggestions of espionage in several cases after the death of
Moriarty.

C10028. -- B1621. Utechin, Nicholas. "The Colonel of the Matter: The Early Career of Colonel Sebastian
Moran," Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian Anthology. Edited and annotated by Michael Harrison.
Indianapolis/New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., [1976]. p. 283-292.
Research in the Eton College Lists, Oxford University Calendars, and the Army Lists shows that Moran (real
name: Sebastian Augustus Malcolm Edward McNeill) was the illegitimate son of Sir John McNeill of Colonsay,
Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia in 1836. Because of his illegitimacy, Moran went to Eton, Wadham College, and
into the Army under various combinations of his names, taking finally the anglicized form of his mother's surname
(Mourant).

C10029. Alberstat, Mark. "The Wicked Colonel's Canadian Connection," CH, 11, No. 2 (Winter 1987), 31-32, 37.
Colonel Sebastian Moran moved to Canada and concealed his identity by using the name Colonel Spence
Munro (Copp). "The name similarities between the two Colonels are too close to be mere coincidence. They are
both colonels and the given names of Sebastian and Spence are too close to miss. Moran and Munro are even
closer, with the same number of letters."

C10030. Andersen, Verner. "Of Air-Guns," Sherlockiana, 34, Nr. 3-4 (1989), 27.
Text in Danish.
Commentary, with diagrams, of the Paul Giffard airgun used by Moran.

C10031. Barry, Martin. "The Cryptic Chronometer," BSJ, 37, No. 2 (June 1987), 107-111. illus.
The story concerns a long case clock (circa 1725) purchased by the author in 1970, which is connected with a
clock making family from near Banbury, Oxfordshire. A descendent of the original maker is found to be an
instrument maker for Colonel Sebastian Moran (and the last "unknown" member of the Moriarty gang). This
villain modified a chronometer by John Arnold to allow Moran to auction it in London without drawing attention to
himself. Reasons for the appearance of the chronometer in the Moran family are suggested. The chronometer
was again auctioned in London in the early 1980's, causing a storm of protest about its origins.

C10032. Conger, Wally, ed. Shikari: Writings of Colonel Sebastian Moran.[Monrovia, Calif.: The Blind German
Mechanics, 1985.] 3 v.
Contents: Vol. 1. Heavy Game of the Western Himalayas. -- Vol. 2. The Assassination Diary. -- Vol. 3. The Prison
Letters.

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C10033. Crelling, Jack. "Airguns, Waxen Images, and Colonel Moran," CHJ, 6, No. 2 (February 1984), 2-3.
The infamous colonel of "The Crown Diamond" was actually the villain of Maza.

C10034. Crelling, Jack. "The Persistent Enemy: Further Thoughts on Colonel Sebastian Moran," CHJ, 12, No. 6
(June 1990), 2-3.
"Colonel Sebastian Moran was a worthy adversary, indeed. It can be argued that he was more worthy than
Professor Moriarty. He was certainly more persistent and more influential than any professor. However, while the
Colonel was able to escape Holmes' grasp, he (the great hunter), never did manage to kill Holmes, the greatest
game of all."

C10035. Dunnett, David. "A Toast (Dis)honouring Colonel Sebastian Moran," Calabash, No. 4 (September 1983),
45-47.
For the occasion of the 10th Annual Col. Sebastian Moran Trap Shoot, July 24, 1980.
"Now shooters all, whoever you may be, / If you want to sink to the bottom of the tree, / If you, like Moran, wish to
be a fool, / Be careful to be guided by this blackened rule: / Do all your things very dastardly / And you all will
work for Moriarty."

C10036. Lai, Rick. "Flashman and Colonel Moran," WW, 12, No. 3 (January 1990), 16-17.
References to George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman's Lady and Flashman and the Redskins indicate that Sir
Harry Flashman served with Col. Sebastian Moran in the Zulu War (1879).

C10037. Linsenmeyer, John M. "The Colonel Was No Pioneer, BSJ, 29, No. 4 (December 1979), 218-220.
It is more likely that Moran would have belonged to the Probyn's Horse regiment than the First Bengalore
Pioneers, identified as Madras Shappers and Miners. This supposition is endorsed by the noted historian of the
British Army, Philip Mason.

C10038. Lithner, Klaus. "Ny överste i sikte(t)," Sherlockiana, 34, Nr. 3-4 (1989), 25-26.
Text in Danish.

C10039. Meyer, Charles A. "The Second Most Dangerous Man in London,"BSM, No. 55 (Autumn 1988), 16-24.
A careful study of Moran's career both in India and later under the tutelage of Professor Moriarty clearly shows
that Colonel Moran was in reality "Jack the Ripper."

C10040. Moran, Joseph W. "A Letter from Col. Sebastian Moran," PP (NS), No. 1 (March 1989), 15-17.
"I have an old score to settle with Mr. Sherlock Holmes." Col. Moran reports on the true story of Ronald Adair, his
involvement with "M," and the termination, with extreme prejudice, of Sherlock Holmes.
Second prize winner in the 2nd Annual Crime Contest conducted by the 1st Bangalore Pioneers, transcribed
from the oral presentation at the annual dinner of The Three Garridebs, May 1988.

C10041. Pollack, Dorothy Belle. "About the Colonel," CH, 8, No. 4 (Summer 1985), 18.
"This Colonel Sebastian Moran / Is the second most dangerous man. / Schooled at Oxford and Eton, / He's finally
beaten / By Holmes, in a well-laid, tight plan!"

C10042. Prager, Jan C. "The Capture of Colonel Moran," PP, 4, No. 1 (January 1982), 23-24. (Poet's Page)
"That's how Holmes deloused empty Camden House / And returned to London's gray."

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C10043. Van Valkenburgh, Norman J. "The Old Shikari," BSJ, 31, No. 1 (March 1981), 14-19.
Moran was neither imprisoned nor did he die: rather he escaped, or was allowed to flee, to the U.S. He appears
to have lived in Jamestown, N.Y., and was the author of an article on deer hunting that appeared in Forest and
Stream on December 28, 1901. In the Canon he is described as an old Shikari (hunter), and the author of the
deer-hunting article signs himself "Old Shekarry," a variant.

Professor Moriarty

See also Empt, Fina, Vall, and T. S. Eliot

C10044. -- A3538. Anderson, Poul. "A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem," BSJ, 5, No. 1 (January 1955), 13-18.
"It seems probable ... that Moriarty was working on the basic idea of number itself, and that he developed a
general binomial theorem applicable to other algebras than the one we know."

C10045. -- A3539. Arenfalk, Poul. "The Mystery of Sherlock Holmes Versus Moriarty and The Secret Behind the
Fight at the Falls of Reichenbach: A Work of Research," Tr. into English by Peter Jerndorff-Jessen. Sherlockiana,
4, No. 2-3 (1959), 5-15. (Special Number of Sherlockiana printed in English)

C10046. -- A3540. Ashton, E. G. "International Investigators, Inc.," EQMM, 19, No. 99 (February 1952), 68-80.
----------. "Sociedade Internacional de Detectives," Misterio-Magazine [Edicao Brasileira do EQMM], No. 41
(December 1952), 41-53.
The Examining Body of The Three Eyes (International Investigators, Inc.), a club of eight famous sleuths,
considers a communication from a certain acrostical T. A. LaMont advancing the vicious theory that Moriarty was
Watson.
Received a special award for the Best Sherlockiana in EQMM's 6th annual detective short-story contest.

C10047. -- A3541. Austin, J. Bliss, Gloria H. Schutz, and Robert H. Schutz. A Bibliography of the Writings About
Professor Moriarty. Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Arnsworth Castle Business Index, December 1962. 3 p.
----------. Reprinted in part with title: "A Moriarty Symposium," BSJ, 12, No. 4 (December 1962), 240-241.
(Bibliographical Notes)

C10048. -- A3542. Baring-Gould, William S. "`He Is the Napoleon of Crime, Watson,'" Show, 5, No. 2 (March
1965), 65-69. illus.
----------. ----------, The first half of this essay is reprinted in The Annotated Sherlock Holmes. New York: Clarkson
N. Potter, [1967]. Vol. 1, chap. 10, p. 81-84.

C10049. -- A3543. Berman, Ruth. "Moriarty -- MC2," BSJ, 9, No. 1 (January 1959), 46-47.
"Professor Moriarty was more than forty years in advance of the discovery of the quantum theory (which
appeared in its true form in 1926)."

C10050. -- A3544. Blakeney, T. S. "The Holmes-Moriarty Hypothesis," Sherlock Holmes: Fact or

Fiction? London: John Murray, [1932]. Appendix 3, p. 130-134.
Objections to the theory that the Master and Professor were the same man.

C10051. -- A3545. Bloch, Robert. "The Dynamics of an Asteroid," BSJ, 3, No. 4 (October 1953), 225-233.
----------. ----------, SHsf Fanthology One. Edited by Ruth Berman. The Professor Challenger Society, 1967. p. 5-
12.
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Moriarty tells on his deathbed how he survived the Reichenbach fall -- even though the accident left him partly
paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair for sixty years -- and then atoned for his former criminal life (and in so
doing was triumphant over a certain Detective) through his anonymous research to help scientists build rocket
launchers and satellites. (According to David Wallace, Moriarty actually invented a spacecraft which enabled him
to escape to the moon where he is still carrying on his criminal activities. We can only hope that Bloch is right and
not Wallace!)

C10052. -- A3546. Boucher, Anthony. On the Nomenclature of the Brothers Moriarty. [With a note by Vincent
Starrett.] Ysleta: Edwin B. Hill, 1941. [4] p. (Sherlockiana)
Limited to 25 copies.
----------. ----------. San Francisco: The Beaune Press, 1966. [4] p. (Especiality No. 2)
Limited to 225 copies.
"A plausible theory as to the circumstances which may have led Dr. Watson to believe that both (or all three) of
the Moriarty ilk were named James." (Edgar W. Smith)
Review: SHJ, 8, No. 2 (Spring 1967), 66 (Lord Donegall).

C10053. -- A3547. Bristowe, W. S. "Sherlock Holmes Unmasked! He Was a Murderer, Alleges Moriarty's
Nephew," The Times, Magazine Section (November 13, 1960), 24.
----------. ----------, CPBook, 2, Nos. 5-6 (Summer-Fall 1965), 100-102; 3, No. 12 (Spring 1967), 236-238.
----------. Enlarged with title: "`What a Terrible Criminal He Would Have Made,'" SHJ, 5, No. 1 (Winter 1960), 6-14.
----------. "The Truth About Moriarty," Seventeen Steps to 221b. [Edited by] James Edward Holroyd. London:
George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1967]. p. 144-160.
Dr. Bristowe quotes a letter he received from Mr. James Moriarty, the son of Colonel James Moriarty and nephew
of Professor James Moriarty, giving "the Moriarty family's version of what happened on May 4, 1891, at the
Reichenbach Falls, together with an account of the events leading up to that final encounter between Sherlock
Holmes and Professor Moriarty, and the long drawn out aftermath."

C10054. -- A3548. Buchholtz, James. "A Tremor at the Edge of the Web," BSJ, 8, No. 1 (January 1958), 5-9.
Interesting speculations on the nefarious career of Professor James Moriarty, Sc.D.

C10055. -- A3549. Castner, B. M. "The Professor and The Valley of Fear,"West by One and by One. San
Francisco: Privately Printed, 1965. p. 67-81.
"Professor Moriarty--not, indeed, the original Professor, but the man who was playing that role during the months
immediately preceding the date of The Final Problem--was Sherlock Holmes himself."

C10056. -- A3550. Durrenberger, E. Paul. "Holmes and Moriarty," BSJ, 15, No. 4 (December 1965), 222-223.
"The professor simply outwitted Holmes. Holmes never had an interview with Moriarty; never saw him at Victoria
Station; never pushed him over Reichenbach Falls."

C10057. -- A3552. Foss, T. F. "The Case of the Professor's Ineptitude," SHJ, 8, No. 4 (Summer 1968), 125-126.
An examination of Moriarty's activities reveals him to be "a slap-happy, irresponsible criminal practitioner."

C10058. -- A3553. Galbraith, A. S. "The Real Moriarty," BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 2 (1957), 55-62.
A study of the use Holmes and Moriarty made of mathematics, with a conclusion that the real Moriarty was a
mathematician.

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C10059. -- A3554. Heldenbrand, Page. "The Duplicity of Sherlock Holmes," Two Baker Street Akronisms.
Summit, N.J.: The Pamphlet House, 1945. p. 7-11.
"Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson have perpetrated a great fraud against their public, theretofore unrevealed.
For it is this writer's conviction that the villainous Professor Moriarty and his criminal organization did not exist,
and that the mysterious events in which `Moriarty' figured are pure fiction."

C10060. -- A3555. Henderson, David. "`No Such Person!'" SHJ, 7, No. 3 (Winter 1965), 93-94. (Wigmore Street
Post-Bag)
A denial that Colonel James Moriarty ever existed.

C10061. -- A3556. Hinrich, D. "The Professor, the Colonel and the Station Master," SHJ, 7, No. 2 (Spring 1965),
52-54.
An examination and resolution of some contradictions concerning the three brothers.

C10062. -- A3557. Hoffmann, Banesh. "Annotations Can Have Sinister Connotations," BSJ, 18, No. 2 (June
1968), 102-103.
There is evidence in The Annotated Sherlock Holmes that Moriarty is still alive and as ruthless as ever.

C10063. -- A3558. Hogan, John C. "Opportunities for Asteroidal Crime," Air Force Magazine and Space Digest,
45, No. 6 (June 1962), 70-71.
----------. ----------, BSJ, 12, No. 4 (December 1962), 210-212.
A review of Professor Moriarty's great work, The Dynamics of an Asteroid, suggesting that the Soviet space
program may have benefited from Moriarty's mathematical theories.
C10064. -- A3559. Hogan, John C. "Sherlock Holmes and Outer Space," BSJ, 11, No. 3 (September 1961), 159-
161.
An incredible hypothesis that The Dynamics of an Asteroid is actually a master blueprint for the establishment of
a criminal "upper world" in outer space corresponding to the "underworld" on earth.

C10065. -- A3560. Hoylman, Doug. "Moriarty and the Binomial Theorem," Proper Bostonian [New England
Science Fiction Association], No. 6 (1970).
----------. ----------, The SHsf Fanthology 2. Edited by Ruth Berman. Minneapolis, Minn.: The Professor Challenger
Society, September 1971. p. 14-19.
"The author believes that Holmes was ignorant of higher mathematics and really didn't understand what that
famous treatise was all about." (Julian Wolff)

C10066. -- A3561. Jopson, I. "The Moriarty Organisation and the Beginners of T.H.R.U.S.H.," SHJ, 9, No. 1
(Winter 1968), 25-26.
The unnamed Professor whose key men formed the Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables
and the Subjugation of Humanity, better known as T.H.R.U.S.H., is identified as Holmes's archenemy. The
reference is on page 79 of The Dagger Affair, one of the "Man from U.N.C.L.E." series.

C10067. -- A3562. Krejci-Graf, Karl. "The Binomial Theorem," SHJ, 9, No. 2 (1969), 62.
The Professor's treatise on the Binomial Theorem may have been written as a solution to the Fermat Problem.

C10068. -- A3563. ["Letter to Baker Street"], from "A Student of Professor Moriarty's," BSJ, 11, No. 4 (December
1961), 242, 244.
A refutation of Hogan's hypothesis that Moriarty's book has something to do with interplanetary space bodies.
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C10069. Macdonell, A. G. "Mr. Moriarty," Baker Street Studies. Edited by H. W. Bell. London: Constable and Co.,
1934. p. 159-175.
----------. ----------, The Spanish Pistol and Other Stories. London: Macmillan and Co., 1939. p. 208-220.

C10070. -- A3564. Macdonell, A. G. "The Truth About Professor Moriarty," The New Statesman [London], 33
(October 5, 1929), 776-778.

----------. ----------, The Incunabular Sherlock Holmes. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. Morristown, N.J.: The
Baker Street Irregulars, 1958. p. 115-121.

Only one explanation will account for Moriarty's death at the Reichenbach Falls in May 1891 and reappearance
in 1899. The Professor never existed. He was invented by Holmes to cover up some of his failures.

C10071. -- A3565. Mather, Philip R. "Moriarty's Here Tonight," BSJ, 12, No. 4 (December 1962), 209.
"Friends of Sherlock, on your guard; / Evil forces wield their might! / No help will come from Scotland Yard; / And
Moriarty's here tonight."

C10072. -- A3566. Meyer, Karl E. "Dr. Mo and 007: A Scandal in Identity," SHJ, 8, No. 2 (Spring 1967), 55-57.
The true identities of James Bond, Dr. Mo, and "M" are made known for the first time--James Moriarty, Professor
Moriarty, and Colonel Moriarty!

C10073. -- A3567. Meyer, Karl E. "Elementary, Sir--Moriarty Is Back," The Washington Post (August 13, 1963),
A18.
Holmes is consulted by the son of Inspector Lestrade concerning the recent activities of Professor Moriarty.

C10074. -- A3568. Moriarty, Daniel L. "The Peculiar Persecution of Professor Moriarty," BSJ, 10, No. 1 (January
1960), 15-34.

C10075. -- A3569. Morrow, L. A. "Letters from Somewhere," BSJ, 16, No. 1 (March 1966), 6-8.
Three letters from the brother of Moriarty warning him that a certain doctor-writer is planning to make him the
villain in his stories.

C10076. -- A3570. Morrow, L. A. "More Letters from Somewhere," BSJ, 18, No. 3 (September 1968), 144-147.
A fourth letter concerning the family reputation -- this one from Moriarty's sister--and a fifth from the brother of
young Stamford telling of his and John Clay's scheme to "turn his red hair into real gold."

C10077. -- A3571. Officer, Harvey. "The Song of Professor Moriarty," A Baker Street Song Book. New York: The
Pamphlet House, 1943. p. 14.
----------. ----------, BSJ [OS], 1, No. 3 (July 1946), 300.
"Moriarty was a villain, / Out for arson, theft or killin'; London was pervaded by him, / Only Sherlock dared defy
him."

C10078. -- A3572. Pattrick, Robert R. "Moriarty Was There," BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 3 (1958), 45-53.
Holmes and Moriarty began their separate careers in 1877; and the Professor was responsible for some of the
early cases in which the Master was not completely successful.

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C10079. -- A3573. Puhl, Gayle Lange. "Odd Clippings ... Re Witchcraft," BSC, 2, No. 2 (September 1969), 8-10.
"Professor James Moriarty is a warlock!"

C10080. -- A3574. Redmond, Chris. "Moriarty," BSP, No. 22 (April 1967), 3.

"Yes, the foulest of the villains to whom Sherlock Holmes gave chase, / Till that most dramatic meeting on a cliff-
edge, face to face, / Is, according to Sherlockians, still lurking every place: / They will cry, with righteous anger,
`Moriarty.'"

C10081. -- A3575. Shreffler, Philip A. "The Dark Dynasty: A Djinn Genealogy," BSJ, 21, No. 1 (March 1971), 22-
25.
Bernardo Eagle, a famous 19th-century conjurer known also as "The Napoleon of Wizards," is identified as the
father of "The Napoleon of Crime" who, according to both Baring-Gould and the author, was born on Halloween
1846. It is further suggested in a "sinister postscript" that Eagle's daughter Georgiana, the young witch, may have
been Irene Adler.

C10082. -- A3576. Siegel, Norman. "Letter Addressed to a Mister Sherlock Holmes," BSJ, 18, No. 3 (September
1968), 148-149.
"Most honoured, most hated, most habitual foe, / Now well past one hundred and five: / I thought I would write
you so I'd let you know / That I am very much alive!"

C10083. -- A3577. Simmons, George. "Some Moriarty-Poincaré Correspondence," BSJ [OS], 2, No. 3 (July
1947), 246-255.
A series of letters between the Professor and the French mathematician Henri Poincaré about the mathematical
physics of heavenly bodies.

C10084. -- A3578. Simpson, A. Carson. "The Curious Incident of the Missing Corpse," BSJ, 4, No. 1 (January
1954), 24-34.
Moriarty's body was never recovered because his extraordinary intellect and mathematical capacity enabled him
to invent a small, self-powered atomic accelerator which he turned on himself as he began his plunge into the
Reichenbach gorge.

C10085. -- A3579. Skene Melvin, David. "Some Notes on the Name of the Brothers Moriarty," BSJ, 21, No. 2
(June 1971), 90-96.
One of the great Sherlockian puzzles has been why Watson gave the brothers Moriarty the same first name. A
careful analysis, however, of the manner in which the Moriartys are spoken of and to, and a realization of the
plentitude of compound names in Victorian England and in the Canon, leads inescapably to the solution that they
do not have the same first name but rather have the compound surname of James Moriarty.

C10086. -- A3580. Smith, Edgar W. "On the Dynamics of a Sputnik," BSJ, 8, No. 1 (January 1958), 3-4.(The
Editor's Gas-Lamp)
"It was Professor Moriarty who ordained the dynamics of the sputnik."

C10087. -- A3581. Smith, Edgar W. "Professor Moriarty Muses," BSJ, 7, No. 4 (October 1957), 229.
"If I could beat that man, if I could free / Society of him, then I should feel / My own career had reached its
apogee..."

C10088. -- A3582. Smith, Edgar W. "Prolegomena to a Memoir of Professor Moriarty," The Second Cab. Edited
by James Keddie. [Boston: The Speckled Band, 1947.] p. 57-64.
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----------. The Napoleon of Crime: Prolegomena to a Memoir of Professor James Moriarty, Sc.D. Summit, N.J.:
The Pamphlet House, 1953. [23] p. illus.
Limited to 221 copies.
----------. ----------, Baker Street and Beyond: Together with Some Trifling Monographs. Morristown, N.J.: The
Baker Street Irregulars, 1957. [unpaged]
"A reluctant tribute to a great mind, with especial emphasis on the part Moriarty played in atomic physics."

C10089. -- A3584. Starr, H. W. "A Submersible Subterfuge, or Proof Impositive," Leaves from the Copper
Beeches. Narberth, Pa.: Livingston Pub. Co., 1959. p. 97-108.
Captain Nemo of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is identified as Professor Moriarty. "Here we have
the first major step up in a spectacular criminal career whose final step down was a long one to the bottom of
Reichenbach Falls."

C10090. -- A3585. Starrett, Vincent. "The Two Moriarties," The Saturday Review of Literature, 10, No. 3
(February 17, 1934), 491. (The Bowling Green)
----------. ----------, BSJ, 12, No. 4 (December 1962), 241.
----------. ----------, BSP, No. 23 (May 1967), 5-6.
The author's famous letter on the first names of Professor and Colonel Moriarty.

C10091. -- A3586. Stix, Thomas L. "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Moriarty?" BSJ, 12, No. 4 (December 1962),
200, 243.
The Professor was not so sinister at all, and the person most afraid of him was -- Holmes!

C10092. -- A3587. Wallace, David. "Reichenbach Revisited, or Moriarty Again!!" BSJ, 19, No. 3 (September
1969), 172-175.
A terrifying announcement that the arch-criminal somehow survived his fall into the Reichenbach and escaped to
the moon where, with his fiendish apparatus, he is still able to corrupt the minds of men -- and on an even larger
scale than before. Earthlings beware!

C10093. -- A3588. White, Amelia M. "The Problem of the Three Moriartys," BSJ, 7, No. 4 (October 1957), 225-
228.
The stationmaster in Fina was the Professor's brother but his name was not James, and Col. James Moriarty
was their uncle.

C10094. -- A3589. White, Paul. "The Case of the Men Named James," BSJ, 6, No. 1 (July 1956), 46-50.
There were two Moriartys and they were both known as James.

C10095. -- A3590. Williamson, Jerry Neal. "`There Was Something Very Strange,'" BSJ, 12, No. 4 (December
1962), 201-209.
Moriarty was the brother of Sherlock and Mycroft!

C10096. -- A3591. Wilson, Alan. "`You Crossed My Path,'" SHJ, 4, No. 3 (Winter 1959), 89-90.
A chronological reconciliation between Moriarty's death at the Reichenbach and his alleged reappearance in the
Birlstone case.

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C10097. -- A3592. Wodehouse, P. G. "Onwards and Upwards with the Fiends," Punch, 228 (February 16, 1955),
222-223.
An analysis of Moriarty as the inferior of Fu Manchu among Fiends in Human Shape.

C10098. -- A3583. Yuhasova, Helene. "Sonnet: Sherlock Holmes to James Moriarty, Sc.D. (May 4, 1891)," The
Saturday Review of Literature, 28, No. 40 (October 6, 1945), 13.
----------. ----------, A Lauriston Garden of Verses, by Helene Yuhasova. Summit, N.J.: The Pamphlet House, 1946.
p. [13].
----------. ----------, Baker Street and Beyond: Together with Some Trifling Monographs. Morristown, N.J.: The
Baker Street Irregulars, 1957. [unpaged]
"Today our cosmic meeting we'll adjourn-- / Today you'll go -- tomorrow I'll return!"

C10099. -- B1622. Andrews, George E. "Applications of Basic Hypergeometric Functions," SIAM Review, 16, No.
4 (October 1974), 441-484.
Professor Andrews shows, on pages 476-478, that Moriarty evidently turned to crime even earlier than
suspected. He traces the Moriarty formulas of H. W. Gould's appellation back before 1826 to Gauss, the greatest
mathematician of modern times.

C10100. -- B1623. Asimov, Isaac. "The Dynamics of an Asteroid," BeyondBaker Street: A Sherlockian
Anthology. Edited and annotated by Michael Harrison. Indianapolis/New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., [1976]. p.
13-18.
A masterly reconstruction of Moriarty's famous scientific essay. See also DB4832.

C10101. -- B1624. Bloch, Robert. "The Dynamics of an Asteroid," Crimes Across the Sea: The 19th Annual
Anthology of the Mystery Writers of America.Edited by John Creasey. Preface by Herbert Brean. New York:
Harper & Row, [1964]. p. 166-173.
----------. ----------, ----------. London: G. Harrap & Co., [November 1965].
First published in BSJ, October 1953 (DA3545).

C10102. -- B1625. Cohen, Saul. "Toast to the Three Moriarty Brothers," The Noble Bachelors' Red-Covered
Volume. Edited by Philip A. Shreffler. St. Louis: Birchmoor, 1974. p. 16.
"Oh brother! / Cain and Abel / The James Boys, Frank and Jesse / The Smith Bros., Trade and Mark / There
were three brothers in merry Scotland / The Smothers Brothers / The Brothers Karamazov / Joyce Brothers /
Which of these can compare with the brothers Three of Moriarty?"

C10103. -- B1626. Doran, Wilbert B. "The Unknown Professor," MB, 3, No. 1 (March 1977), 10.
Moriarty may have been an imaginary super-criminal who Watson planted in the adventures so that the Master
Detective would have an equally master adversary; or Watson changed the name of the evil genius to hide his
true identity; or, perhaps more likely, the Professor existed only in Holmes's mind.

C10104. -- B1627. Dunning, William E. "An Etymological Note Upon the Given Name of Professor James
Moriarty," BSJ, 28, No. 3 (September 1978), 159-160, 167.
Traces the origin of "James" from the Old Testament's Jacob, Latin Iacobus, French (and English) Jacques,
Jacobites and Jacobians. Also notes that Jacob wrestled with God, paralleling Moriarty's wrestling with Holmes at
the Reichenbach Falls.

C10105. -- B1628. Dunning, William E. Per Arduoid ad Asteroid. [Santa Fe, N. M.: Privately Produced, 1974.]

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Discussing the various possible meanings of "asteroid" in The Dynamics of anAsteroid, this paper presents
astronomical, geometric, and biological significances of the term, showing how each may have been the subject
of the lost volume.

C10106. -- B1629. Felong, Michael. "Morte de Moriarty," BSJ, 24, No. 2 (June 1974), 89-93.
"A pathological inquiry into the medical peculiarities of Professor James Moriarty," (Subtitle)

C10107. -- B1630. Gardner, John. "Alive and Well and Head of the Family?" The Daily
Telegraph Magazine (November 29, 1974), 83, 86, 90, 94. illus.
----------. "Moriarty and the Real Underworld," Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian Anthology. Edited and
annotated by Michael Harrison. Indianapolis/New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., [1976]. p. 111-120. illus.
"Professor Moriarty has been handed down to us as the apotheosis of evil. But what kind of criminal underworld
would this 19th-century Godfather have ruled?"

C10108. -- B1631. Gardner, John. The Moriarty Dossier. London: Pan Books Ltd., [1976]. [9] p. illus.
Contents: The Legend. -- The New Evidence Discovered. -- The Moriarty Journals. -- The Detectives: Sherlock
Holmes; Angus McCready Crow. -- Moriarty's London.

C10109. -- B1632. Goodman, Richard. "Professor Moriarty and the Computer Revolution," DCC, 14, No. 1
(December 1977), 4-6.
In Moriarty's famous treatise upon the binomial theorem, located after years of searching, it is clearly revealed
that he anticipated the computer by half a century and undoubtedly realized its use by criminal computer
programmers.
Review: Miami Magazine (October 1978), and reprinted in PPofFC, No. 41 (October 19, 1978), 3.

C10110. -- B1633. Gould, H. W. "The Case of the Strange Binomial Identities of Professor Moriarty," The
Fibonacci Quarterly, 10, No. 4 (October 1972), 381-392, 402.
Two mathematical formulas derived from the binomial theorem and occurring quite frequently in mathematics are
attributed to Moriarty by Harold T. Davis in his book The Summation of Series (Principia Press of Trinity
University, San Antonio, Texas, 1962, p. 71). The history of these formulas is traced, derivations given, the
significance of the formulas weighed, and a narrative in the style of Watson is presented to enliven the account.

C10111. -- B1634. Gould, H. W. Combinatorial Identities: A Standardized Set of Tables Listing 500 Binomial
Coefficient Summations. Rev. ed. Morgantown, W. Va.: [Henry W. Gould], 1972. viii, 106 p.
The Moriarty formulas appear as formulas 3.177-3.178 on page 44 and the inverse Moriarty formulas are 3.179-
3.180 on page 45.

C10112. -- B1635. Gould, H. W. "The Design of the Four Binomial Identities: Moriarty Intervenes," The Fibonacci
Quarterly, 12, No. 3 (October 1974), 300-308.
Extends the analysis given in the first instalment by showing a fourfold design of the basic two formulas of
Moriarty. In all, several dozen remarkable mathematical formulas are traced, proved, studied, inverted, and
analyzed. It is shown that a good detective of binomial formulas must employ all the tricks of the trade to sleuth
out the Moriarty villain in mathematics.
Reviews: Mathematical Reviews, 50 (November 1975), No. 9609 (R. E. Greenwood); Referativnii Zhurnal
Matematika (1975), No. 5 B397 (Georgi Egorychev); Zentralblatt für Mathematik, 303 (January 12, 1976), No.
05005 (P. Hagis, Jr.).

C10113. -- B1636. Gould, H. W. "Sherlock Holmes and the Godfather of Organised Crime," BSJ, 26, No. 1
(March 1976),34-36.
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"Moriarty was indeed the Napoleon of crime, being in fact a descendant of a brother of Napoleon I. What is more,
Moriarty moved to the United States after the events at Reichenbach, and became the Godfather of organised
crime in America."

C10114. -- B1637. Hall, Trevor H. "Dr. James Moriarty," Sherlock Holmes and His Creator. New York: St. Martin's
Press, [1977]. p. 1-15.
A biographical essay in which the author maintains that Moriarty must have been awarded one doctorate for his
treatise upon the binomial theorem and another doctorate honoris causa for his book, The Dynamics of an
Asteroid, that he was only about 45 years old at the time of his death at the Reichenbach Falls; that his brother
was not a station-master (Watson misheard Holmes), but the Queen's harbour-master at Portsmouth (Moriarty's
older brother, Col. James Moriarty, is dismissed as another of Watson's mistakes); and that Dr. Moriarty's Chair in
Mathematics was at the University of Durham.

C10115. -- B1638. Harwood, John. "Nero Wolfe vs. the Master Criminal," The Mystery Reader's Newsletter, 6,
No. 1 (July 1973), 15-18.
Compares the criminal networks of Professor Moriarty and Arnold Zeck, and suggests that Zeck was the son of
Moriarty.

C10116. -- B1639. Jaffee, Mary L. "Valentine for a Hero," SM, 2, No. 3 (March 1975), 4.
"And as we all come to the end of the story, / No longer will men call you greedy or gory./ Holmes will soon be the
villain, and you'll have the glory./ And whenever those Baker Street innocents rove, / They will then know your
worth, Moriarty, my love!"

C10117. -- B1640. Jaffee, Mary L. "`Yes, Dear Little Medea, There Was and Is a Prof. Moriarty,'" BSJ, 27, No. 1
(March 1977), 33-35.
Professor Moriarty's brother, in an attempt to whitewash the late-deceased, bitterly disappoints a fiendish little
girl, who has worried about theories, advanced by Irving Jaffee and others, that her idol never lived. Infuriated by
the thought of a good Moriarty (slander in reverse), Medea seeks spectacular revenge.

C10118. -- B1641. Jameson, Keith. "The `True' Story of Sherlock Holmes," The Brothers Three
of Moriarty ... Unhappy Anniversary Celebration, Held in the Back Room of the Frontier Saloon, Moriarty, New
Mexico, Thursday, 23 October 1975. Insert in program.
"Moriarty in his time was Napoleon of crime. / He wanted not for ally nor for slave. / But Sherlock was the guy
who wouldn't drop or die, / and he laid Moriarty in his grave."

C10119. -- B1642. Pasley, Robert S. "The Return of Professor Moriarty," BSJ, 28, No. 3 (September 1978), 161-
164.
Moriarty survived his Reichenbach fall (or was reincarnated) and recently reappeared. As proof, the author cites
the discovery, in 1962 in Jersey City, of almost $2,500,000 in U.S. currency (evidence of criminality or tax
evasion) belonging to one Moriarty. Moriarty's powers were not only superhuman, but supernatural, probably
diabolical. The supporting clues are reviewed. Moriarty may reappear repeatedly, until the end of time, but he will
never encounter an abler or nobler antagonist than Holmes.

C10120. -- B1643. Pate, Janet. The Black Book of Villains. London; Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1975. 120
p.
Designed by Vic Giolitto.
----------. The Great-Villains. Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975. 120 p.
Jacket design by Gail Ash.
A lavishly illustrated anthology of forty well-known villainous characters, including Moriarty (p. 18-20).

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Review: SHJ, 12, No. 2 (Winter 1975), 65 (James E. Holroyd).

C10121. -- B1644. Peller, Rivkah. "Professor James?" Holmeswork, 5, No. 1 (January 1978), 20-22.
During two visit to America, in 1866 and 1879, Holmes endeavoured to apprehend the infamous James brothers
(Jesse, Frank and John). Although unsuccessful, he continued to keep watch on their activities and to maintain
close ties with the Pinkerton Agency. In 1882 Jesse James left for England where he soon joined forces with
Moriarty. After the professor's forced resignation from the university, Jesse murdered him and assumed his
name. "From the reputation of being the worst man in America, he now became the cerebral `Napoleon of
Crime.'" Holmes knew the true identity of Moriarty and that he had two brothers -- one a colonel and the other a
stationmaster -- but kept this information from Watson.
Review: KCDJ, No. 12 (February 18, 1978), 5-6 (Jon L. Lellenberg).

C10122. -- B1645. Portugal, Eustace. "The Holmes-Moriarty Duel," The Bookman [London], 86 (May 1934), 97-
99.
Moriarty killed Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls and assumed the detective's identity upon returning to London.

C10123. -- B1046. Ryer, Peter J. "Moriarty a Mathematician?" BSJ, 23, No. 2 (June 1973), 98-99.
The professor was a physicist, not a mathematician.
Review: BSJ, 23, No. 3 (September 1973), 188 (Mark Levy).

C10124. -- B1647. Shaw, John Bennett. "The Moriarty Boys," The Noble Bachelors' Red-
Covered Volume. Edited by Philip A. Shreffler. St. Louis: Birchmoor, 1974. p. 12-16.
Facts and theories about the professor and his two brothers. Also relates the author's own theory as to the date
of Moriarty's "evil conception."

C10125. -- B1648. "`Sherlock Holmes Unmasked,'" The Sunday Times(November 20, 1960); (November 27,
1960).
Letters from S. C. Roberts, R. C. Mitchell, C. B. Appleby, Lord Donegall, and Hugo Rochfort Dowling concerning
Bristowe's article (DA3547).

C10126. -- B1649. Shreffler, Philip A. "Moriarty: A Life Study," BSJ, 23, No. 2 (June 1973), 92-97.
A comprehensive biographical study, with particulars on his ancestry, his father Bernardo Eagle the celebrated
conjurer, his birth, scientific and criminal career, an identification of his university, his brothers and sister, and a
new account of his final encounters with Sherlock Holmes. Includes the first Moriarty Chronology, tracing the
family from 1210 A.D. to the death of Professor Moriarty in 1891.

C10127. -- B1650. Skene Melvin, David. "Some Notes on the Name of the Brothers Moriarty," SHJ, 12, Nos. 3-4
(Summer 1976), 89-91.
First published in BSJ, June 1971 (DA3579).

C10128. -- B1651. Starr, H. W. "A Submersible Subterfuge, or Proof Impositive," The Other Log of Phileas Fogg,
[by] Philip José Farmer. Illustrated by Jack Gaughan. New York: DAW Books, [March 1973]. p. 180-191.
Reprinted from Leaves from the Copper Beeches, 1959 (DA3584).

C10129. -- B1652. Tattershall, Jim. "The Dynamics of an Asteroid," BSJ, 25, No. 2 (June 1975), 74-76, 100.
Existing hypotheses as to the contents of this book are enumerated under the assumption that the text includes a
general solution for the orbit of an asteroid; the possibility of Moriarty plagiarizing Karl Friedrich Gauss's Theoria
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Motus Corporum Coelestium is presented and defended. Also included is a brief sketch of the historical and
scientific background of asteroids.

C10130. -- B1653. Utechin, Nicholas. "Professor James Moriarty, 1836-91," BSJ, 24, No. 1 (June 1974), 82-87.
Traces the career of Moriarty. He was Irish-born, attended a Catholic public school and Trinity College in Dublin,
and then taught at Manchester University. From 1863 to 1883 he devoted himself to setting up his criminal
organization. His criminal career lasted eight years and included planning the Jack the Ripper murders as a
macabre game to baffle Holmes. The detective was driven to distraction by Moriarty's activities and murdered
him at the Reichenbach Falls.
Reviews: BSJ, 24, No. 3 (September 1974), 181-182 (Lord Donegall; Philip A. Shreffler); 25, No. 1 (March 1975),
55-56 (Nicholas Utechin).

C10131. -- B1654. Van Antwerp, Frances. "Was He Biparous?" BSJ, 28, No. 2 (June 1978), 88-89, 95, 97.
Moriarty was Holmes's alter ego. Holmes developed a split personality to compensate for some early traumatic
experience, perhaps the murder of his unfaithful mother by his father, as suggested by Trevor H. Hall in "The
Early Years of Sherlock Holmes" and Nicholas Meyer in The Seven-Per-CentSolution. He finally was able to rid
himself of the evil Holmes (Moriarty) at the Reichenbach Falls and then spent the next three years straightening
out his psyche.

C10132. -- B1655. Vaughan, William. "Villains: Professor Moriarty," The Captain (1902).
----------. ----------, The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook. p. 20-21.
A look at "the greatest villain in fiction."

C10133. -- B1656. Wall, Wayne. "Holmes's Tangled Web," BSJ, 25, No. 2 (June 1975), 105-106, 110.
The Moriarty organization was headed by the professor, the colonel, and two unnamed accomplices. Holmes
claimed to have eliminated this organization in Fina and Empt, yet no one was jailed. His claim was a tangle of
lies to hide his inglorious and unheroic shooting of Moriarty, against whom he could prove no crime. Moran knew
the detective was anything but heroic.

C10134. -- B1657. Wall, Wayne. "The Satanic Motif in Moriarty," BSJ, 27, No. 1 (March 1977), 27-32.
Taking the obvious Satanic characterization of Moriarty literally, this article compares the professor as he is
described in the Sacred Writings to the Devil as he is described in the Bible, and concludes that the "King Devil,"
as Barker called him, was in fact an 1895 manifestation of the Devil himself! This identification explains
Porlock's nom de plume. This "link" between Moriarty and the world gave out "advance information" on crimes
even before they were committed, causing Inspector MacDonald to claim "witchcraft." This "link" was a medium,
a Satanist! Porlock? Warlock!

C10135. -- B1658. [Walsh, William J.] "Moriarty a Villain?" BSJ, 23, No. 2 (June 1973), 100-101.
"Robert Moriarty," the great grandson of James Moriarty's brother, refutes "the scandalous reports of one
blackguard, John Watson," by showing how Holmes persecuted and then killed his former professor, "an
inoffensive head of the Department of Mathematics."

C10136. -- B1659. Wodehouse, P. G. "Bring on the Fiends," The Saturday Book, 17. Edited by John Hadfield.
London: Hutchinson, [1957]. p. 223-227.
----------. ----------, ----------. New York: Macmillan, [1957]. p. 223 227.
Reprinted from Punch, February 16, 1955 (DA3592).

C10137. Aig, Marlene. "The Real Moriarty at Reichenbach," PP (NS), No. 10 (June 1991), 5-6.

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"Maybe Moriarty was really someone else in disguise ..." But who?

C10138. Armstrong, Walter P., Jr. "Brother Jonathan," BSJ, 42, No. 3 (September 1992), 143-148.
Comparisons between Professor James Moriarty and Jonathan Wild (Vall).

C10139. Batory, Dana Martin. "Was Nemor Moriarty?" BSM, No. 59 (Fall 1989), 38-43.
The essay examines the possibility that Moriarty survived the Reichenbach Falls incident and reappeared in
October 1919 in the guise of the Latvian inventor Theodore Nemor -- protagonist of "The Disintregation
Machine." The article also make the case that Prof. George Edward Challenger (The Lost World), with the
complicity of reporter Edward Dunn Malone, disintegrated Moriarty.

C10140. Beckman, Frank S. "The Identity of Professor James Moriarty," BSJ, 31, No. 4 (December 1981), 207-
212.
After many years of research, the author has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that Moriarty was, in reality,
America's outstanding intellectual of the 19th century -- Charles Sanders Peirce. He was a very great man, a
mathematician and a philosopher among many other things, but a man who is nevertheless to a large extent
unknown.

C10141. Bengtsson, Hans-Uno. "The Dynamics of an Asteroid," BSJ, 43, No. 2 (June 1993), 98-107.
The article discusses why the dynamics of asteroids was an important problem in mathematics and physics
during the late 19th century, and reveals the probable content of Moriarty's famous work, showing him to have
anticipated many results within the modern theory on chaos.

C10142. Bowers, John F. "James Moriarty: A Forgotten Mathematician," Illustrations by Mark Thomas. New
Scientist (December 23-30, 1989), 17-19.
----------. ----------, APD (July 1991), I-III.
"We remember Sherlock Holmes's greatest adversary for his involvement in serious crimes, but he was also a
mathematician of exceptional gifts."

C10143. Campbell, Karen. "Death Be Not Proud: The Myth Behind Moriarty," CH, 15, No. 3 (Spring 1992), 4-7.
Winner of the True Davidson Memorial Award for 1991.

C10144. Campbell, Patrick J. "The Name of the Professor,"

CH, 14, No. 4 (Summer 1991), 8-10.
Discusses the given names of the Moriarty brothers who were both named James.

C10145. Chandler, David L. "Sherlock Holmes Villain Unmasked," The Boston Globe (January 5, 1993). illus.
----------. ----------, Tiger Tales, No. 27 (June 1993), 1.
Highlights of a paper presented by Bradley Schaefer of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center at a meeting of the
American Astronomical Society in which he relates the many parallels between Professor Moriarty and Col.
Moran and the 19th-century astronomers, Professor Simon Newcomb and Col. Alfred Drayson.

C10146. Crandall, Richard E. "Bookmarks: The Paradoxical Features of Cosmology, Radio, Chess, and
Professor Moriarty," Reed: The Quarterly Magazine of Reed College, 66, No. 3 (May 1987), 2-3. illus.
The second in a series of articles in which faculty members write about books they consider particularly
important.
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One of the paradoxes presented by Mr. Crandall, Associate Professor of Physics, is: "there could not have been
a Holmes without a Moriarty, and yet the former did away with the latter."

C10147. Dandrew, Thomas A. "Mrs. Turner?" BSJ, 29, No. 2 (June 1979), 84-89.
After a thorough examination of such diverse clues as educational background, physical characteristics, known
abilities, and anagrammatic evidence, the writer identifies Mrs. Turner, the mysterious housekeeper in Scan, as
being Prof. James Moriarty, who, in an attempt to keep close tabs on the Master during a critical period of
Moriarty's career, assumed the above mentioned disguise.

C10148. Davies, David Stuart. "Unmasking Moriarty," SHJ, 20, No. 2 (Summer 1991), 48-49.
The Napoleon of Crime employed an actor to impersonate him in public. The real Professor Moriarty was none
other than Mycroft. "Holmes was completely fooled by his brother ... and it must have been filial ties that blinded
him to the possibility that his brother was Moriarty."

C10149. Davis, Norman M. "Some Fascinating Facts About Professor Moriarty," VA, No. 1 (January 1991), 43-
47.
"This scholarly investigation was originally presented as a paper to The Red Circle of Washington, D.C., who
undoubtedly deserved it."

C10150. Davis, Norman M. "Song for Moriarty," MO, Premiere Issue (Winter 1992), 4.
"To portions of Ponchielli's `The Dance of the Hours.'"
"Moriarty, / you're a stinker! / with legali- / ties you tinker."

C10151. Diamond, Susan Z. "The Dynamics of a Sexual Asteroid," SMuse, 9, No. 1 (Fall 1990), 13-15.
"Everything you wanted to know about Professor Moriarty's sex life but were afraid to ask." (Subtitle)

C10152. Douglas, Alex. "Moriarty Alias Holmes," WF, 3, No. 4 (Autumn 1986), 7.
The strain of continually proving that he was the world's greatest detective was too much for Holmes. What
started as fancy gradually took hold as fact in his disordered brain. He developed a separate "persona," another
self, in which he imagined himself to actually be Moriarty. His fancy fixed upon a poor unfortunate professor, and
he gradually took over Moriarty's identity.

C10153. Farrell, John. "On the Mispronunciation of a Famous Name," VDH, 3, No. 3 (January 1982), 4. (More
Toasts -- Shaw Seminar)
"Tell me Sir, are you of the party / that calls the arch-fiend More-ee-arty?"

C10154. Fredriksson, Karl G. "En handfull superskurkar" ["A Handful of Villains"], Jury, 8, Nr. 2 (1979), 79-93.
Contains a section on and numerous references to "the Napoleon of Crime." Illustrated with two Paget drawings
of Moriarty.

C10155. Galerstein, David H. "Moriarty, a Korean?" PP, 4, No. 1 (January 1982), 25-27.
An account of three Korean children and how they helped Galerstein solve a dilemma involving the evil
professor.

C10156. Galerstein, David H. "A Non-Submission: Notes from a Tin Box," PP(NS), No. 6 (June 1990), 11-14, 31-
40.
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In which Watson's son tells about what he found in the tin dispatch-box of the Great Hiatus and the true
destruction of Mr. Moriarty.

C10157. Goldfarb, Cliff. "To the Professor," CH, 8, No. 3 (Spring 1985), 10.
"This is a toast to James Moriarty, / A man Doyle (or Watson) refers to but thrice; / Tho' to listen to media, popular
and arty, / You'd think the Professor was in charge of all vice."

C10158. Grandia, Rik. "`Knowledge of Astronomy -- Nil' vs. `The Dynamics of an Asteroid': A Study in
Astronomy," BJ (May 1981), 21-22.
Text in Dutch.
"An addition to Tatum's SHJ article."

C10159. Gutheil, Thomas G. The Dynamics of an Asteroid and the Psychology of Moriarty. Cambridge, Mass.:
Friends of Irene Adler, 1980. 5 p. (Publication No. 7)
Limited to 50 numbered copies.

C10160. Hollyer, Cameron. "E=M32, or How Many Moriartys Can Park on the Edge of a Quark?" CH, 16, No. 3
(Spring 1993), 30-41. illus. (What's in a Name, 3)
Contents: 1. The Equation. -- 2. The Brothers Moriarty. -- 3. Crypt-Anagram. -- 4. Shaw vs. Sherlock. -- 5.
Sherlock vs. Shaw. -- 6. Three Minus Two Equals One.

C10161. James, Maria L. "James Moriarty: The Man, the Myth, the Mathematician," 221b, No. 4 (August 1991),
34-37.

C10162. Keefauver, Brad. "A Repudiation of the Napoleon of Crime," Q£$, 6, No. 4 (November 1985), 52-56.
An argument against the image of Professor Moriarty as a master criminal, based on the lack of any real criminal
genius displayed by him in the Canon. A thesis is then put forth that he was merely a criminal accountant, whose
client list was the closest thing to a criminal empire he possessed.

C10163. Kennedy, Bruce. "A Carbon Copy," ND (June 1979), 8-9.

Similarities between two Napoleons of Crime: Adam Worth, whom William Pinkerton called "the outstanding
criminal of the Victorian Age," and James Moriarty.

C10164. Kluge, Mary Ann. "Watson as the Master of Disguise," CHJ, 9, No. 7 (July 1987), 2-3.
"James Moriarty was Watson's name for the crime family of England ... Watson, warned of the charge of libel,
utilizes the code James Moriarty to identify key personages in the `family.'"

C10165. Kobler, John. "The Private Life of Professor Moriarty," Some Like It Gory: A Post-Graduate Course in
the Art of Murder. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1940. p. 312-320.
A comparison between Professor Robert [sic] Moriarty and Boston-born Adam Worth, alias "Little Adam." "Sir
Arthur touched him up here, toned him down there -- and out came Moriarty."

C10166. Lai, Rick. "The House of Moriarty," BSG, No. 1 (Summer 1987), 37-43.
Professor Moriarty's younger brother, the railway master, was Horace Moore from Doyle's "The Lost Special" and
Andrew Lumley from John Buchan's The Power House. This Moriarty founded an international criminal empire

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that sparked World War I. The crime syndicate was inherited by Dominick Medina, the mastermind in
Buchan's The Three Hostages. Medina, the Professor's nephew, ironically died in a similar manner as his uncle.

C10167. Lai, Rick. "The Third Most Dangerous Man in London," WW, 10, No. 2 (September 1987), 25-30.
Horace Dorrington, the master criminal of Arthur Morrison's The Dorrington Deedbox, was a lieutenant of
Professor Moriarty. Along with Col. Moran, Dorrington remained at liberty after the trial of the Moriarty gang in
1891. When Holmes cornered Moran in 1894, Dorrington was engaged in villainy in Europe and Australia. Upon
Dorrington's return to London, Holmes disguised himself as a plumber to expose the criminal's scheme against a
wealthy young Australian.

C10168. Lauterbach, Edward S. "Anathema," BSJ, 33, No. 3 (September 1983), 170.
----------. ----------, Client's Case-Notes. Edited by Brian R. MacDonald. Indianapolis: The Illustrious Clients, 1983.
p. 29.
"Oh, curse you Moriarty, Devil's spawn; / Oh, hide your ghastly face, so pale and wan. / ... Bless'd be the day you
missed your step and fell -- / Now, may your soul rot endlessly in hell!"

C10169. Lithner, Klas. "Ny överste i sikte(t)" ["New Colonel in the Sight"], Sherlockiana, 34, Nr. 3-4 (1989), 25-26.
The real Moriarty was Colonel Alexander Angus Airlie Kinloch, Honorary Major-General, late King's Royal Rifle
Corps (1839-1919), and author of three books on large game shooting in Tibet.

C10170. Logan, Carole. "The Moriarty Blues," SMuse, 9, No. 4 (Summer 1991), inside front cover.
To the tune of "The Simple Joys of Maidenhood."
"Where are the simple joys of villainhood? / Where are all those endearing deadly toys."

C10171. Matusiba, Naoki. "Study of Professor Moriarty's Work," SNSHC, 1, No. 2 (December 15, 1990), 38-46.
Text in Japanese.
"We remember Moriarty as Holmes's greatest adversary for his involvement in serious crimes, but he was also a
mathematician of exceptional gifts. He had studied and developed the Analytical Engine, created by Charles
Babbage.

C10172. McSherry, Frank D., Jr. "The Armchair Criminal," The Armchair Detective, 14, No. 1 (Winter 1981), 57-
70.
A finely illustrated article with Moriarty as the archetype.

C10173. Meyer, Charles A. "Professor James Moriarty in New York City," BSJ, 39, No. 3 (September 1989), 148-
152, 187.
An illustration, apparently by Edward Austin Abbey, showing an unmistakeable likeness to Professor Moriarty
appeared in the January 1878 issue of Harper's Monthly Magazine. It is obvious that the Professor was in the
States to study American criminal techniques, probably with George Leonidas Leslie -- the mastermind of the
Manhattan Savings Bank robbery in October of that year.

C10174. Miranker. Glen S. Napoleon or Newton of Crime? Cambridge, Mass.: Friends of Irene Adler. 1978. 9 p.
(Publication No. 5)
Limited to 50 numbered copies.
----------. ----------, PP, 3, No. 1 (1980), 7-20.
Moriarty produced the Analytic Calculating Engine designed by Charles Babbage to further his criminal activities.

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C10175. Moriarty, James. The Dynamics of an Asteroid. [Los Angeles: John C. Hogan, B.S.I., 1967.] 1 v.
(unpaged)
Light green cloth lettered gilt.
Presentation copy to Nathan L. Bengis from John C. Hogan, July 19, 1967, and to John Bennett Shaw from
Nathan L. Bengis, September 30, 1970, with notes from Bengis: "Contents written in invisible ink, becomes
visible instantly when treated with reagent 221b. (Formula, unfortunately, is classified information.)" "And now to
John Bennett Shaw, who, I am sure, possesses the reagent to make the invisible ink in this book visible."

C10176. Neblock, Charles E. "Of Manuscripts, Mathematics, and Moriarty," WW, 10, No. 3 (January 1988), 5-9.
Reviews the scholarly contributions attributed to Moriarty and speculates that his magnum opus on the dynamics
of a satellite may have been suppressed as a result of having plotted an asteroid orbit which would eventually
carry the planetoid into a cataclysmic encounter with the earth.

C10177. O'Brien, James F. "Moriarty Vindicated," BSJ, 33, No. 1 (March 1983), 37-38.
The title of Moriarty's major work, The Dynamics of an Asteroid, indicates that it dealt with a particular asteroid
rather than asteroids in general. Recent evidence by Nobel Prize winner Luis W. Alvarez suggests an asteroid
collided with the Earth 65 million years ago, causing the extinction of all dinosaurs. If Moriarty made the same
suggestion, without the evidence Alvarez cites, it is likely that he met with ridicule and professional isolation.
Perhaps this drove him to crime.

C10178. O'Brien, Thomas F. "Re: Vampires, Again," BSJ, 37, No. 3 (September 1987), 154-157.
This article considers the suggestion that Moriarty was in fact Dracula in disguise. Through evaluation of internal
evidence in Stoker's Dracula and comparison of its details with the Canon, the author concludes that there are
fundamental incompatibilities and that the theory must be rejected.

C10179. Olding, Alan C. "In Memoriam Moriarty," NFTD, 12, No. 2 (June 1991), 6.
"A funeral ode for 4th May, '91."
"Somewhere in the great hereafter, / His tall, lank figure clothed in black, / Stands the world's most evil grafter, /
Soaking wet, from Reichenbach."

C10180. The Oxford Book of Villains. Edited by John Mortimer. Oxford University Press, 1992. xii, 431 p.
Contains an excerpt on Moriarty from Fina and "Macavity: The Mystery Cat," by T. S. Eliot.

C10181. Pillin, William. "The Death of Professor Moriarty," Everything Falling. Poems by William Pillin. Prints by
Polia Pillin. With a foreword by Robert Bly. [Santa Cruz: Kayak Books, 1971.] p. 44-45.
Limited to 1200 copies.
----------. ----------, To the End of Time: Poems New and Selected (1939-1979). Paintings by Polia Pillin. Los
Angeles: Papa Bach Editions, 1980. p. 117-118.
"I hunted him like a relentless fugue / in the baroque taverns of the waterfront, / sewers and slums and spiteful
alleyways. / And when the crawling enigmatic fog dimmed viaducts and arclights, we pursued / our deadly game
of tag, with every bend / and every door a risk."

C10182. Pollack, Dorothy Belle. "Take Moriarty, for Example," SMuse, 6, No. 2 (Spring 1982), 20.
All hail to James, let's not be slighting / This reptile, who (through Watson's writing) / Makes Sherlock's life -- and
ours -- exciting!"

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C10183. Robinson, Robert E. "Exit James Moriarty -- Enter the Telephone Company," BSJ, 32, No. 1 (March
1982), 20-24.
The so-called Professor Moriarty was in reality Dr. Joseph Bell. His criminal web comprised the Telephone
Company, whose control he had wrested from his cousin, Alexander Graham Bell. The responsibilities of his
protégé, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, were to exclude the name of Bell from Watson's writings and to propagate the
myth that Holmes never existed. In his wisdom, Holmes avoided the telephone whenever possible, as should we
all.

C10184. Sayman, Carolyn. "A Semi-Final Solution to the Final Problem," CH, 7, No. 4 (Summer 1984), 7-9.
Winner of the 1980 True Davidson Memorial Award.

C10185. Sherrod, P. Clay. "Review: Dynamics of an Asteroid, by Professor James Moriarty," BSR, 1, No. 11 (July
1979), 5-6.
The oversights and inaccurate speculations in Moriarty's book have no reflection as to the mathematical genius
of its author, only to his inability to combine the sciences of mathematics and astronomy into realistic theorems.

C10186. Shreffler, Philip A. "The Adventure of the Presidential Theft," MP, 3, No. 2 (May 1982), 4-5.
Explores the possibility, first suggested by Albert M. Rosenblatt, that the missing "reading copy" of the speech
President Roosevelt delivered to the Congress on December 7, 1941, may have been stolen by Moriarty.
Shreffler theorizes that Col. Moriarty may have been the culprit.

C10187. Tatum, Jeremy B. "The Dynamics of an Asteroid," SHJ, 14, Nos. 3-4 (Summer 1980), 104-105. illus.
Speculations on Moriarty's application of the binomial theory to the dynamics of an asteroid, with photographs of
asteroids 378 Holmia and 729 Watsonia. A possible connection between Moriarty and the murder of Charlois,
discoverer of Holmia.

C10188. Trapp, David James. "Estate of Moriarty v. Holmes, et al. Court of Appeals of New York, 1913," BSJ, 37,
No. 3 (September 1987), 138-139.
An account of the libel action taken by Colonel James Moriarty against Holmes, Watson, The Strand
Magazine, Harper's Weekly, and Collier's Weekly. "Our conclusion is that the demurrer granted by the Trial Court
and upheld by the Appellate Division be upheld and the complaint be dismissed, with costs to Plaintiff."

C10189. Valentine, Mark. "Was Moriarty the Biggest Rotter in Literature?" The Ritual, No. 8 (Autumn 1991), 16-
18.
"Brief reflections on some fictional villains." (Subtitle)

C10190. Vatza, Edward J. "The Death and Resurrection of Professor James Moriarty," BSM, No. 33 (Spring
1983), 8-10, 31.
Dates Vall as post-Reichenbach. The professor is able to reappear because he was so well concealed in the
organization that he used an impersonator to meet Holmes.

C10191. Walker, Arlen P. "Tracing Thrush's Nest. The Place: London; The Time: 1894," Dragon, 7, No. 12 (June
1983), 28-29.
This issue features two other articles by Walker, one of which is also about Thrush's connection with Moriarty
("Spying on the Spies: Author's Notes: A Struggle with Sources, p. 34-36).
See also The Dagger Affair, by David McDaniel.

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C10192. Williams, John B. "Extracts from the Holmes-Moriarty Correspondence," Discovered and edited by Meri
Baker Streit. DB, 7 (October 31, 1984), 3.
"Professor Moriarty's Nightmare" and "Sherlock Holmes's Repartée": an illustrated poem in two parts.

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