The Hound of the D'Urbervilles (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Sebastian Moran: The narrator; serves as the "Anti-Watson" to Moriarty's "Anti-Holmes," doing the Professor's dirty work and recording their actions
• Professor James Moriarty: A mathematician and criminal mastermind, best known as the nemesis of Sherlock Holmes
• Tess Durbeyfield: Deceased farm girl and murderess said to haunt the woods of Wessex
• Bianca Castafiore: An opera singer, nicknamed "The Milanese Nightingale," most famous for her rendition of the Jewel Aria from "Faust."
• Jim Lassiter: Add a description of this character.
• Simon Carne
• Mrs Halifax: The Anti-Mrs-Hudson; runs a prostitution ring in the same building as Moriarty and Moran's residences
• Dr Mabuse
• Dan
• Mad Carew
• Sophy Kratides: A Greek blade-for-hire
• Margaret Trelawny
• Drebber
• Irene Adler
• Mattie Ball
• Colonel James Moriarty: The middle Moriarty brother; responsible for 'supplies' under the British Army
• Stationmaster James Moriarty: The youngest Moriarty brother and the least successful one
• Polly
• Sabin
• Tringham
• Lucas
• Braham
• Von Herder
• Pagan
• Watson
• Nakszynski
• Nevil Airey Stent: Astronomer Royal and Professor Moriarty's academic nemesis
• Rupert
• Jane
• Dr Nikola
• Webley
• Don Rafaele
• Gertie
• Patterson
• Venic
• Fred Porlock
• Irma Vep
• Tyrone
• Gibbs
• Madame Sara
• Ogilvy
• Saul

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• “I mused humorously that I might offer an introductory special, say a garrotting thrown in gratis with every five poisonings. Perhaps there should be a half-rate for servants? A sliding scale of fees, depending on the number of years a prospective victim might reasonably expect to have lived had a client not retained our services?”

  Sebastian Moran

• “Moran barely touches on the many other theories which have been advanced as to what actually happened… (…) that Moriarty evaded death by mentally projecting himself into a succession of other bodies and has lived on as a series of masterminds; the names of Carl Peterson, Gregory Arkadin, Alexander Luthor, Arnold Zeck, Professor Marcus, Peter Cornelius, Ernst Blofeld, Justin Sepheran, Derek Leech, Hannibal Lecter and ‘Count Jim Moriarty’ have been mentioned – and some of those aren’t even real people…”

  Professor Christina Temple, BA, MA, PhD, FRHistS.

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• the Irish for such low purposes. A sammy takes only so much field-slog before up and cutting your throat and heading into the bush. Your bog-trotter, on the other hand, grumbles for 700 years, holds rowdy meetings, then decides to get very, very drunk instead of doing anything about it.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• London
• Trantridge Hall
• England
• Europe
• Scotland Yard
• Paris
• Conduit Street
• Eton
• Mars
• France
• India
• Ruritania
• The Chase
• Khatmandu
• Nepal
• Geneva
• Hentzau
• Mountmain
• Kensington
• Berlin
• Great Britain
• Cornwall
• America
• Malilella
• Germany
• Camorra

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Kim Newman (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 823

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery › British Detectives
• Books › Literature & Fiction

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