Sherlock Background Moriarty Sherlock Holmes Moriarty Lives Sherlock: Why Moriarty Is So Obsessed With Holmes Sherlock Holmes: Moriarty Lives #2 sneak peek Major Spoilers Comic REVIEW: Ken Ludwigs Moriarty: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure Brings Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes TV Series Can Finally Answer A Big. His name was Professor James Moriarty, known to many as the Napoleon of Crime and the master of a vast association of thieves, extortionists, smugglers, fences, and ladies of questionable virtue. And, over Reichenbach Falls in 1891, he fell to his doom alongside his arch rival, the glory seeking detective Sherlock Holmes or did he? Washed ashore in a strange town in Switzerland, Moriarty is alone, penniless, and lacking his network of thieves. Will his cunning and guile be enough against Baron von Hohenheim, a foe whose ruthlessness rivals his own? Driven by a solemn promise to a dead woman, Moriarty begins a clever campaign of murderous revenge. It's one of the most notorious villains of all time as you've never seen him!