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The Infernal Device
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The Infernal Device is a 1978 novel by Michael Kurland featuring Sherlock Holmes' nemesis Professor Moriarty as an Anti-Hero. It was nominated for an Edgar award.It has four sequels: Death by Gaslight (1982), The Great Game (2001), The Empress of India (2006), and Who Thinks Evil (2014). | |
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Just Like Robin Hood | |
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Just Like Robin Hood: Although Moriarty doesn't work for free, he's also not committing crimes For the Evulz, either, and some of his activities are intended to help right other crimes that the law doesn't touch. | |
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Number of the Beast | |
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Number of the Beast: In Death by Gaslight, the members of the Hellfire Club carry tokens that read DCLXVI. Professor Moriarty helpfully reads from Revelation 13. | |
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Defective Detective | |
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Defective Detective: Sherlock Holmes is portrayed as rather more defective than in the original series, especially when it comes to analyzing matters involving Prof. Moriarty himself. | |
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Discriminate and Switch | |
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Discriminate and Switch: Early in The Great Game, we meet a pawnbroker and moneylender who complains about being constantly on the receiving end of antisemitism. Except that he isn't Jewish... | |
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Lorre Lookalike | |
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In The Great Game, amongst the sinister figures following Benjamin is a fat man named Gottfried Kasper and his obsequious Lorre Lookalike sidekick Ugarti, clearly intended as versions of Casper Gutman and Joel Cairo (with the Cairo character named after Peter Lorre's character in Casablanca, Ugarte). | |
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One-Letter Name: Moriarty's housekeeper, Mrs. H. | |
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Amnesiac Liar | |
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Amnesiac Liar: In The Empress of India, Sherlock Holmes manages to do it to himself. He has a secret identity as a criminal, as a way of keeping an eye on the criminal underworld. When he suffers a Tap on the Head and wakes up in this lair, he deduces that this is his true identity, and proceeds to become a successful criminal. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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Worthy Opponent: Holmes sees Moriarty this way. Moriarty usually doesn't return the compliment, although he does express genuine admiration for Holmes' skill in The Great Game. | |
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Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist | |
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Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: Holmes is the private version of this in the Moriarty novels. Lestrade averts the trope, as he usually rolls his eyes whenever Holmes goes off on a Moriarty tangent. | |
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Sympathetic Murderer | |
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Sympathetic Murderer: Chardino in Death by Gaslight. Lampshaded by Moriarty, who thinks that the best road to justice would be allowing the killer to keep going, and who also doesn't stop Chardino from setting off a bomb that kills twenty-six more people at the end. Even Holmes has to agree. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: Deconstructed. Moriarty is a crook when the need arises, but he's as honorable as Holmes. | |
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Perspective Flip | |
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Perspective Flip: Moriarty is portrayed as a long-suffering antihero/hero who patiently endures Holmes' delusions about the extent of his "criminal empire". | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
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Status Quo Is God: Moriarty and Holmes wind up working together in every novel, but Holmes' opinion of Moriarty at the end always remains unchanged. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Moriarty, to no one's great surprise. Cecily Perrine. In The Empress of India, Margaret St. Yves and Peter Collins bond over their mutual snark. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: Moriarty, sneering at Holmes' Defective Detective personality, remarks that Holmes has remained a bachelor. Cue Barnett pointing out that so has Moriarty. The good professor has to concede the point. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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Demoted to Extra: The Barnetts after The Great Game. | |
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Mirror Character | |
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Mirror Character: The Infernal Device makes this point about Holmes and Moriarty: by and large, they're the same person on different sides of the law. That being said, the novels represent Moriarty as a more stable personality than Holmes. | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Several times with Holmes and Moriarty. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: In The Great Game, amongst the sinister figures following Benjamin is a fat man named Gottfried Kasper and his obsequious Lorre Lookalike sidekick Ugarti, clearly intended as versions of Casper Gutman and Joel Cairo (with the Cairo character named after Peter Lorre's character in Casablanca, Ugarte). In The Empress of India, Moriarty is assaulted by a man named Plum wielding a lead pipe. The series in general avoids Whole-Plot Reference, but The Empress of India does the equivalent of "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" from the criminal's point of view. | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
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The series in general avoids Whole-Plot Reference, but The Empress of India does the equivalent of "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" from the criminal's point of view. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Moriarty for Holmes, Benjamin Barnett for Watson, Cecily Perrine for Mary Morstan, and the Mendicants for the Baker Street Irregulars. Moriarty also has his own version of Irene Adler. | |
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Servile Snarker | |
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Servile Snarker: Moriarty's servants Mr. Maws and Mummer Tolliver. Djuna in The Empress of India. | |
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Devil in Plain Sight | |
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Devil in Plain Sight: Count D'Hiver in Death by Gaslight. | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility: The Barnetts want children, but as of The Great Game, Cecily has had two miscarriages. By the time of Who Thinks Evil, set several years later, they're still childless. | |
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Master of Disguise | |
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Master of Disguise: Moriarty. Holmes' efforts in this respect become a Running Gag. | |
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