Moriarty [Import] [Paperback]

John Gardner (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 319 pages
• Publisher: Pan (1976)
• ISBN-10: 0330246836
• ISBN-13: 978-0330246835
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,781,497 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sorry it's Over, May 30, 2009

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Gene P (Great Falls, VA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Moriarty (Otto Penzler Book) (Hardcover)

I've been a fan of John Gardner since the Liquidator, and have read almost everything he's written. It's too bad he waited so long to add to his first 2 Moriarty adventures, and too bad there will be no more, but it was fun to travel back in time like only John Gardner can transport the reader.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Napoleon of Crime's Waterloo, February 14, 2009

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EddieLove "EddieLove" (NYC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moriarty (Otto Penzler Book) (Hardcover)

The master criminal returns to re-form his gang and do battle with other crimelords in turn-of -the-last-century London in a book that's heavy on Moriarty mythology and very light in the way of entertainment.

The stage is set early for Moriarty's brutal revenge and then we wait (and wait, and wait) for something to happen. What does transpire is tangential to the plot, and instead the author recounts tales from earlier books in his series or stops what little action there is to recite musichall ditties. The writing itself isn't exactly bad, but by the final third the whole enterprise is simply boring. And while Conan Doyle envisioned a philosopher of crime who engineered things from the deep background, here the Professor is a pretty standard head of a troupe of cliché villains.

The one great portrait of Moriarty I recall, was in a BBC Radio version of The Final Problem, that comes closest to Doyle's description of a kind of disembodied CEO of the underworld.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Moriarty (unfinished), May 15, 2011

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linda pitner (washington, pa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moriarty (Otto Penzler Book) (Hardcover)

It has been a while since I read this but remember enough to review it. I really enjoyed Gardner's first
two Moriarty novels, so I had been looking forward to the third in the series for years. This one starts out well.
The main mystery to me is- who completed the novel? A number of serious conflicts are created and must be resolved
before the end of the novel. In spite of this, the novel finishes quickly without resolving some serious issues.
I greatly recommend the first two- Return and Revenge of Moriarty. -Tom