Watson's insight is verified by the mysterious link between Holmes and his arch-opponent, Dr. Moriarty.

An early famous example in popular culture is the return of Sherlock Holmes: writer Arthur Conan Doyle killed off the popular character in an encounter with his foe Professor Moriarty, only to bring Holmes back, due in large part to audience response.

Before the 63rd UN General Assembly, Bangladesh's foreign minister had met with James F. Moriarty who is continuing his lobbying for Bangladesh's recognition of Kosovo and not to recognise the break-away regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Professor James Moriarty is the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, a fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Moriarty is a criminal mastermind whom Holmes describes as the " Napoleon of crime ".

In this story, Moriarty is introduced as crime lord who protects nearly all of the criminals of England in exchange for their obedience and a share in their profits.

In an episode where Moriarty is interviewed by a policeman, a painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze is described as hanging on the wall ; Holmes remarks on another work by the same painter to show it could not have been purchased on a professor's salary.

More obliquely, a 1908 mystery by Doyle that was named " The Lost Special " features a criminal genius who could be Moriarty and a detective who could be Holmes, although neither is mentioned by name.

Doyle himself, however, is inconsistent on Watson's familiarity with Moriarty.

Moriarty is a confident man, assuring Holmes that if he meddles in his plans, he risks inevitable destruction.

Despite the vast crime ring over which he presides, Moriarty is fiercely independent.

In his first appearance in " The Final Problem ", Moriarty is only referred to as Professor Moriarty – no first name is mentioned.

This is the only time Moriarty is given a first name, and oddly, it is the same as that of his brother.

In The Valley of Fear ( written after the preceding two stories, but set earlier ), Holmes says of Professor Moriarty: " He is unmarried.

He mentions this when seeking to compare Moriarty to a real-world character that Inspector Alec MacDonald might know, but it is in vain as MacDonald is not so well read as Holmes.

It is averred the surviving Jesuit priests at Stonyhurst instantly recognized the physical description of Moriarty as that of the Reverend Thomas Kay, S. J., Prefect of Discipline, under whose aegis Doyle came as a wayward pupil.

Finally, Conan Doyle is known to have used his former school, Stonyhurst College, as inspiration for details of the Holmes series ; among his contemporaries at the school were two boys named Moriarty.

It is sometimes implied that this is the same Moriarty.

By the sequel, Sherlock Holmes versus Arsène Lupin, or Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis, there has been no word of any mental recovery or escape attempts by Moriarty.

The Moriarty tribunal found that, of the £ 270, 000 collected in donations for Brian Lenihan, no more than £ 70, 000 ended up being spent on Lenihan's medical care.

Marjorie Kay played Alice Faulkner and Ernest Maupain was Moriarty ( no copy of the film known to have survived )

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While main cast members Noth, Dzundza, Michael Moriarty and Richard Brooks had eached signed option contracts that allowed them to be hired for the full series, Florek had signed no such contract.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

* May 4 – Professor James Moriarty, fictional criminal mastermind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short story The Final Problem ( b. unknown )

The criminal mastermind follows, and the pursuit ends on top of the Reichenbach Falls, during which both Holmes and Moriarty apparently fall to their deaths while locked in mortal combat.

Holmes, by his own account, was originally led to Moriarty by the suggestion that many of the crimes he perceived were not the spontaneous work of random criminals but the machinations of a vast and subtle criminal ring.

Although Moriarty appeared in only two of the 60 Sherlock Holmes tales by Conan Doyle, Holmes ' attitude to him has gained him the popular impression of being Holmes ' arch-nemesis – as " The Final Problem " clearly states: " Holmes spent months in a private war against Moriarty's criminal operations " – and he has been frequently used in later stories by other authors, parodies, and in other media.

In the Doyle stories, narrated by Holmes ' assistant Doctor Watson, Watson never meets Moriarty ( only getting distant glimpses of him in " The Final Problem "), and relies upon Holmes to relate accounts of the detective's battle with the criminal.

In " The Final Problem ", Watson tells Holmes he has never heard of Moriarty, while in The Valley of Fear, set earlier on, Watson already knows of him as " the famous scientific criminal ".

In addition to the master criminal Adam Worth, there has been much speculation among astronomers and Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts that Doyle based his fictional character Moriarty on the American astronomer Simon Newcomb.

* " Jim " Moriarty, is played by actor Andrew Scott in the BBC's modern-day adaptation Sherlock as an extremely volatile " consulting criminal " who develops a murderous obsession with Sherlock Holmes.

Recruited from university by British Intelligence, he supposedly set up his criminal empire as part of an undercover operation to monitor crime in London which got out of hand, to the point where the ' cover ' became more real to Moriarty than his role in British Intelligence.

This story, set in 1891, introduces Holmes's greatest opponent, the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty.

Moriarty is the criminal genius behind a highly organized and extremely secret criminal force and Holmes will consider it the crowning achievement of his career if only he can defeat Moriarty.

In Kim Newman's 2011 book Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D ' Urbervilles, told from the point of view of Col. Sebastian Moran, the story " The Problem of the Final Adventure " reveals that Professor Moriarty's plan had been to lead Sherlock Holmes to destroy Moriarty's rival, the German criminal Doctor Mabuse.

Moriarty meets Watson, denies that he is a criminal and reluctantly threatens to pursue legal action unless the latter's accusations cease.

Set in 22nd Century in New London, Inspector Beth Lestrade of New Scotland Yard is chasing grotesquely deformed French rogue geneticist Martin Fenwick, when she realizes that his companion is none other than the 19th century criminal mastermind, Professor James Moriarty.

In this series, Professor Moriarty is an antihero ( and sometimes a real hero ) who resignedly tolerates Holmes's obsessively exaggerated opinion of his criminal empire, and is often brought into reluctant alliance with his nemesis in order to counter menaces ranging from threats to their associates to threats to the nation.

Complete with deerstalker hat, pipe and violin, he spends his days in a home-made criminal laboratory, constantly paranoid about plots hatched by his ( Holmes's ) arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty.

He was soon recruited by the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, and served for a time as his chief of staff.

Moran appears as a minor character in Alan Moore's comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I, as an underling of Moriarty, where they are both secret agents who are assigned by MI5 to create a criminal empire through which the government can be in control of the criminal underworld.