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Moriarty is the second Sherlock Holmes story by Anthony Horowitz which, oddly, doesn't feature the detective at all.Set immediately after the events at the Reichenbach Falls, American detective Frederick Chase arrives searching for an American crime-boss: the mysterious Clarence Devereux.With Moriarty dead, a power vacuum has been left in England's underworld allowing Devereux to smoothly fill the void, leaving Chase only a small window of opportunity to apprehend the villain before he disappears back into the safety of anonymity. Joining Chase is Inspector Athelney Jones, a follower of Holmes' methods, who won't allow such evil to fester in his homeland unabated.
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Boom Stick
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Boom Stick: Jones' cane can fire a shotgun shell.
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Exactly What I Aimed At
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Exactly What I Aimed At: A bomb is sent to Jones' office at Scotland Yard, but it fails to kill him. The bomb was actually meant to destroy their telegraph room, to prevent them from contacting the Pinkertons in America and discovering that Chase isn't one of their men.
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Genre Savvy
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Genre Savvy: Scotland Yard Inspector Forrester sows some skepticism about the Never Found the Body nature of Holmes dissapearence and wonders if they've really seen the last of him. Inspector Patterson, while shaken over Holmes fate, also speculates that he was expecting something like that given his odd trip out of the country.
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Unreliable Narrator
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Unreliable Narrator: There's an undercurrent of this throughout the novel, underscored by the fact that Chase always tells the reader what he said but less often what he thought at a particular time. The novel is called Moriarty for a reason...
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: Just about every significant Scotland Yard Inspector Holmes has worked with in the books, including the actual Inspector Lestrade, appear in a meeting with Jones and Chase to discuss what happened to Holmes, the Moriarty Empire and Devereux.
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Wicked Cultured
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Wicked Cultured: It's not clear how much this is genuine interest, but Devereux and his organization fund a lot of civic and cultural institutions as part of maintaining a Villain with Good Publicity with their names. As per usual, Moriarty is presented in this light, being a mathematical genius and reading untranslated German philosophers for fun.
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Wrong Genre Savvy
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Athelney Jones thinks that he's in a conventional Sherlock Holmes novel with Frederick Chase as The Watson. Unfortunately, Chase is really The Chessmaster, and as he reminds the reader towards the end, the title of this manuscript is important.
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Framing the Guilty Party
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Framing the Guilty Party: Although Devereux and his organization have committed tons of horrific crimes, they aren't actually guilty of the murders of Lavelle and his household or the bombing of Scotland Yard and protest as much to the authorities.
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Ascended Fanboy
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Ascended Fan Boy: Athelney Jones is this to Sherlock Holmes.
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Dirty Old Man
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Dirty Old Man: Chase certainly thinks this about Leland Mortlake; he used this against him to get Pilgrim into his inner circle. When the duo go to interview him for a second time, he's found with a good-looking boy kneeing down before him. The only remark he makes is "don't you knock?" before putting everything back in.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards Moriarty is completely shocked and unprepared for the vicious American crime-lords.
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Apologetic Attacker
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Apologetic Attacker: Moriarty apologizes to Jones before shooting him to death. He seems to express actual remorse through the narration, but it could very well be self-serving.
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Sherlock Scan
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Sherlock Scan: When Jones first meets Chase he performs one of these.
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Adaptational Heroism
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Adaptational Heroism: John Clay and Archie from The Red-Headed League who help Jones and Chase in the investigation, with Clay also asserting the murder Holmes attributed to him in passing in that story was a Crime of Self-Defense.
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You Have Failed Me
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You Have Failed Me: Moriarty let the police have evidence against all of the men who refused to stand with him against the threat of Devereux.
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Hidden Villain
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Hidden Villain: Perry's mysterious benefactor.
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Evil All Along
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Evil All Along: Chase is really Moriarty who has faked his death and is stringing Jones along for his own reasons.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line:
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Badass on Paper
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Badass on Paper: Inspector Patterson, who arrested nearly the entirety of Moriarty's organization, but did so due to Holmes delivering him all of the evidence necessary for this in a neat package (and Patterson wasn't even his first choice, Lestrade was unavailable at the time). And then there's the matter that he only arrested the people Moriarty wanted him to arrest, given that he'd let Holmes take that evidence against the members of his organization who'd deserted him. To his credit, he does admit that the credit belongs to Holmes and that he'd never even heard of Moriarty before Holmes came to him.
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Loony Fan
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Loony Fan: As revealed by Jones' wife, after his humiliation by Holmes/Watson and subsequent mental breakdown and physical illness, Jones started keeping a Stalker Shrine to Holmes and his cases and attempted to model himself as the equal of Holmes down to assuming his personality traits.
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Other Me Annoys Me
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Other Me Annoys Me: Quite a few Scotland Yard inspectors feel this way about the versions of them that appear in the published Holmes' stories (although those versions don't seem that inaccurate)
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Jerkass Has a Point
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Jerkass Has a Point: Inspector Lestrade isn't portrayed at his best in this story, but isn't wrong insists on actually receiving wire confirmation about the investigation and its details from Pinkerton Headquarters, pointing out that Chase is a relatively junior man in the Agency, and that there may have been new developments since he left America. And given that Chase isn't a real Pinkerton, this turned out to be a smart precaution that Moriarty had to bomb their telegraph office to counter.
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The Reveal
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As "Chase" points out after The Reveal, "whose name is on the cover?" Turns out he's actually Moriarty.
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Diplomatic Impunity
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Diplomatic Impunity: Devereux is an official at the American embassy in London and hides behind this for a while.
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Once More, with Clarity
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Once More, with Clarity: After the final reveal Chase recaps the events of the book explaining how it pieces together.
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The Watson
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The Watson: Chase is one to Jones, and even lampshades the extent to which he doesn't do much detecting of his own and acts as a soundboard to Jones. This is mostly an act to humor Jones, although Moriarty/Chase does genuinely admire Jones' deductive skills.
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Hidden Weapons
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Hidden Weapons: Edgar has one hidden up his sleeve that he uses to great effect. Of course Perry is never without a blade of some sort that seems to magically appear in his hand. Jones has a special cane that doubles as a one shot gun.
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Delivery Guy Infiltration
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Delivery Guy Infiltration: Perry manages to get into Scotland Yard by pretending to be a delivery boy.
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The Ending Changes Everything
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The Ending Changes Everything: with a dose of Sudden Downer Ending. Chase turns out to be Moriarty and has been manipulating Jones for the whole book while eliminating Devereux and his accomplices, murdering Jones, abducting Devereux to torture for information and then heading to America to resurrect his empire.
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Necessarily Evil
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Necessarily Evil: Moriarty is fully aware of the evil acts he has committed; he says that he is "not a monster, but chance compelled (him) to do monstrous things".
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Clay's assistant Archie disappears from the story after being injured by one of Devereux's men after a failed trap when Jones and Chase go chasing after his attacker. Underwood, Moriarty's fiercely loyal bodyguard from The House of Silk is neither seen nor mentioned, although this might just mean that Moriarty isn't meant to be a sequel to The House of Silk.
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Villain with Good Publicity
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It's not clear how much this is genuine interest, but Devereux and his organization fund a lot of civic and cultural institutions as part of maintaining a Villain with Good Publicity with their names.
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Audience Surrogate
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Audience Surrogate: Chase plays the Watson to Jones' Holmes. Emphasis "plays", as both are assuming a role.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: It would perhaps be easier to give a list of people who died that weren't completely irredeemable. That said, Scotchy Lavelle's torture was enough to maybe give you a tinge of sorrow.
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Pinkerton Detective
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Pinkerton Detective: Chase, which explains the international focus of his investigations. Several characters both British and American also bring up the Agency's less savory associations as an unethical and often violent group of strike-breakers. Chase invariably protests that he has had no involvement in these kind of activities. Which is completely true since Chase is not actually a real Pinkerton Detective.
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Victorian London
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Victorian London: The bulk of the book is set in London in the early 1890s.
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Evil Counterpart
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Evil Counterpart: The entire book is Moriarty's investigation of Devereux's organization while pretending to be dead, which is his version of what Holmes investigating Moriarty's organization while pretending to be dead. He even notes the odd coincidence; they both faked their deaths using the same event, though Holmes ascended while Moriarty descended.
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Depraved Homosexual
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Depraved Homosexual: Leland Mortlake.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: As "Chase" points out after The Reveal, "whose name is on the cover?" Turns out he's actually Moriarty. Jones assumes the role of Holmes. Why wouldn't his Watson also be assuming the role?
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: Moriarty. He survives his battle with Sherlock Holmes, kills many of Devereux's associates, bombs Scotland Yard, kills Jones, and has plans to take over Devereux's organization in America.
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Handicapped Badass
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Handicapped Badass: Jones is a middle-aged man with an ailing condition that rears up any time he does anything more than a gentle walk. He still manages some surprising athletic feats though.
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Dramatic Irony
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Dramatic Irony: Your average reader might easily suspect the forces working against Devereux's organization and the police are the remains of Moriarty's organization, especially when bad guys start dying to silenced shots, like from Moran's famous air rifle.
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Red Shirt
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Red Shirt: Jones assistant, who is killed in the bombing of Scotland Yard before appearing in person.
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Evil Vegetarian
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Evil Vegetarian: Clarance Devereux has been a vegetarian since his childhood, and is very vocal about it.
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Slasher Smile
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Slasher Smile: Perry has one of these when ever he has his blade out. Made even worse by the fact he's only around 14.
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Creepy Cemetery
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Creepy Cemetery: Jones is told to meet in an old one that has being disused.
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Torture Cellar
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Torture Cellar: Underneath a meat market is where the Mortlakes perform their "interrogations."
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What the Hell, Hero?: A big one occurs at the end between Jones and Chase. Jones really wanted to set up that detective agency together.
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Absence of Evidence
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Absence of Evidence: Even after finding Devereux's lieutenants, Chase and Jones have nothing on them that connects them to wrong-doing. Inspector Hopkins believes in the presence and influence of Dvereaux and his organization due to how all of his informers, and various other petty criminals who roam the streets have suddenly been disappearing.
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Red Herring
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Red Herring: The coughing man Chase mentions several times, apparently nothing to do with anything. That being said, Chase suspects it's Sherlock Holmes. One might easily think Holmes assumed the identity of Athelney Jones - an actual minor character from the Holmes Canon - to act while he's supposed to be dead. This is swiftly disproven, however.
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Reasonable Authority Figure: American Ambassador Robert Todd Lincoln insists upon proof of Jones and Chase's allegations against a member of his staff but instantly lets them take the man into custody after Jones finds it. Jones colleagues at Scotland Yard also listen to Chase's claims about the Devereux organization and then move to act against them.
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Ambiguously Gay: Moriarty describes his friendship with the late Jonathan Pilgrim in terms that are at least easy to interpret as romantic.
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Call-Forward: When all the Scotland Yard inspectors are discussing their experiences with Holmes, the youngest, Stanley Hopkins, comments that he never met Holmes and wishes he had. He gets his wish following Holmes's return, appearing in three stories.
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Mister Big
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Mister Big: When Clarence Devereux finally makes an appearance, he turns out to be a surprisingly small man, who Chase compares to the puppet Jones bought for his daughter. He's also small enough to be packed in a steamer trunk.
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Exact Words: Lampshaded in The Dénouement As Moriarty reveals his identity and goes over all of the ways he has been fooling the audience, beginning with this line Which he uses to explain his initial misdirection, while proudly claiming to have never lied to the readers.
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Deep Cover Agent: Chase sent in Jonathan Pilgrim to be Leland Mortlake's "traveling companion."
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Faking the Dead: Sherlock Holmes is busy doing this following his battle with Professor Moriarty, which is why he's only mentioned in the story. In the end, it turns out that Moriarty had the same idea...
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Master of Disguise: Jones, following on from Holmes, is this; forcing Chase to dress up as a sailor so they could easily scout out the docks without being noticed. Although as it's later noted he's not as good as he seems, as Chase tried hard not to laugh at Jones' costume. Moriarty is one as well, being noted to have used make up and shoes with lifts in order to create the unnerving appearance described by Watson in contrast with his actual more normal look. Also, despite being Anglo-Irish and having lived his entire life in Ireland or England, he convincingly passes himself off as an American detective.
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Adaptational Nationality: During the book various details of Professor Moriarty's life are brought to light by the man himself directly informing the reader including the fact that he is Irish. While Moriarty being part or entirely Irish has always been a common fan theory - 'Moriarty' was and is a common Irish surname but was almost unknown in England and Conan Doyle, himself of Irish descent, would have known this - in the canon his nationality isn't commented upon beyond the implication that he's not 'foreign'.
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