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    Did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever reveal who he based the character of Professor Moriarty on?

    Question #117714. Asked by george48. (Sep 22 10 8:52 PM)


    Dando

    		It is generally felt that Conan Doyle based Professor Moriarty on a Jewish-American criminal called Adam Worth, who fled the USA and ended up in London. Worth was known as the "Napoleon of Crime" and Holmes uses the same expression to describe Moriarty.
    Vincengt Starratt wrote in the Chicago Tribune in 1943 that Conan Doyle had admitted using Worth as Moriarty's model to a Dr. Briggs of St. Louis.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Worth

    Sep 25 10, 7:57 PM

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