Professor Moriarty #3 - Moriarty

In the summer of 1969, so the story goes, three bulky leather-bound volumes changed hands in the sitting room of a small, pretty little house in Kensington. I was not to know that these books, crammed with tiny ciphered writings, maps, and diagrams, were to take me - almost physically at times - back to the dark, brutal, and secret places of the Victorian and Edwardian underworld.

It is now common knowledge that these books are the coded journals of James Moriarty, the diabolically cunning, highly intelligent criminal mastermind of the late nineteenth century.