
SHERLOCK HOLMES vs. PROFESSOR MORIARTY - Complete Series (Illustrated)
Victorian London Mysteries of Deduction, Rivalry, and Reichenbach FallsBy Arthur Conan DoyleLength8h 13m
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SHERLOCK HOLMES vs. PROFESSOR MORIARTY – Complete Series (Illustrated) gathers the principal narratives in which Arthur Conan Doyle's celebrated detective confronts his intellectual opposite, Professor James Moriarty. These stories refine the detective form through intricate plotting, concealed motives, coded evidence, and the disciplined movement from baffling symptom to rational explanation, while introducing a darker atmosphere of conspiracy and moral danger. Moriarty's criminal organization functions as Holmes's distorted double: an empire of calculation rather than violence alone. The illustrations complement the late-Victorian setting, enriching the period's visual imagination without displacing Doyle's precise, economical prose and Watson's admiring narrative perspective. As both detective fiction and a sustained contest between order and chaos, the collection occupies a foundational place in popular literature. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), a Scottish physician turned author, drew upon medical observation, forensic reasoning, and the intellectual confidence of the Victorian age when creating Sherlock Holmes. His professional training helped shape Holmes's habits of close scrutiny and empirical deduction, while Doyle's familiarity with scientific thought and urban modernity lent the stories their convincing texture. The Moriarty material also reflects the author's interest in the limits of rational mastery: even Holmes encounters an adversary whose intelligence rivals his own and whose reach challenges the stability of civilized society. This volume is recommended to readers seeking the essential Holmes–Moriarty rivalry, whether approaching Doyle for the first time or revisiting the canon in a thematically focused edition. It offers suspense, elegant deduction, atmospheric period detail, and a memorable philosophical conflict between justice and criminal genius. Admirers of classic mysteries, literary studies of detective fiction, and illustrated editions will find it especially rewarding.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Literary Classics
Length8 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 26, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE MIDDLE TEMPLE MURDER (British Mystery Classic) (Annotated)
2The Valley of Fear
3Part 1. The Tragedy of Birlstone
4Chapter 1. The Warning
5Chapter 2. Sherlock Holmes Discourses
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6Chapter 3. The Tragedy of Birlstone
7Chapter 4. Darkness
8Chapter 5. The People of the Drama
9Chapter 6. A Dawning Light
10Chapter 7. The Solution
11Part 2. The Scowrers
12Chapter 1. The Man
13Chapter 2. The Bodymaster
14Chapter 3. Lodge 341, Vermissa
15Chapter 4. The Valley of Fear
16Chapter 5. The Darkest Hour
17Chapter 6. Danger
18Chapter 7. The Trapping of Birdy Edwards
19Epilogue
20The Final Problem
21The Adventure of the Empty House