Professor James Moriarty

Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character and criminal mastermind created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He is a formidable enemy for the author's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Moriarty is a criminal mastermind who uses his intelligence and resources to provide criminals with crime strategies and sometimes protection from the law. He is like a spider at the center of a web, pulling the strings of his criminal empire. Holmes calls him the "Napoleon of crime". Despite appearing only twice in Doyle's original stories, later adaptations and pastiches have often given Moriarty greater prominence and treated him as Sherlock Holmes' archenemy.