Moriarty the Patriot GN 2
Synopsis:
With his goals firmly established and aided by his brother Albert's political ascension to a new branch of the intelligence office, William James Moriarty is more than ready to embark on the real work of bringing down the noble classes. He decides that turning London into a terrible den of crime and iniquity is the first step, and he frames it as putting on a sort of morality play for all the land to see. And if he's creating mysteries, then he's going to need a detective – and luckily for him, a plan carried out on the luxury steamliner Noahtic provides one for him: a young man named Sherlock Holmes.
Review:
Think of the previous volume and the first three chapters of this one as the prologue for Moriarty the Patriot. When viewed in light of the fourth chapter in this second volume – which begins retelling A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story published in 1887 – everything that comes before it is in service of establishing Moriarty as a criminal consultant prior to his meeting with the man who would become his nemesis. At this point it doesn't necessarily look as if they have a mutual antipathy (although we do need to remember the opening pages of volume one in that statement), but more a question of Moriarty finding Sherlock Holmes a useful player in the show he's staging for England's edification. After all, if there's a mystery, there simply must be a detective to solve it.
That play is something he lays out in the two-chapter adventure on the luxury steamliner Noahtic, which is a very thinly-veiled Titanic – even scenes set onboard the ship are recognizable from photos of the doomed vessel. This ship doesn't appear like she's going to meet a terrible fate on her maiden voyage, although the same cannot be said for the passengers. Moriarty's first scene in his crime drama (which sounds like he's relying at least a little on the themes of popular cheap Victorian entertainments such as melodramas and penny dreadfuls) is set on the ship and involves a particularly loathsome nobleman named Blitz Enders. (We can only hope that Blitz is one of those ridiculous nicknames that turn up in fiction sometimes, like “Bunchie” or “Wootsie.”) Count Enders not only so firmly believes in the superiority of the ruling class that he's willing to warp bible verses to suit himself, but he also insists on viewing the lower classes as subhuman to the point where he enjoys hunting them for sport on his estate(s). Moriarty essentially sets him up to reveal himself to the world by sacrificing a random third-class passenger on the ship, pretending to help Enders, and then (melo)dramatically staging a reveal of the man's murderous tendencies. It's prime theatre, and the fact that he happens to bump into the world's only consulting detective onboard is just the icing on the cake.
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