The Infernal Device A Professor Moriarty Novel

"KURLAND HAS MADE MORIARTY MORE INTERESTING THAN DOYLE EVER MADE HOLMES" ISAAC ASIMOV When American journalist Benjamin Barrett is sent to Constantinople to report on the sea trials of a new submarine, the assignment soon becomes more eventful than he had predicted. The submarine is sabotaged, and he is arrested for the brutal murder of a British spy. Rescue comes from an unexpected quarter: the enigmatic Professor Moriarty, who offers him his freedomat a price. Barrett will start a new career in the Professor's employ, assisting him in the business he has been engaged on by the Russian gove."@en
"Uncorrected galleys and front and back cover proofs of the 1979 Signet Books (New American Library) publication."
"Professor Moriarty and a reluctant Sherlock Holmes must join forces to foil the fiendish Russian agent, Trepoff."@en
"Professor Moriarty, erstwhile Mathematics professor, is not 'the greatest rogue unhanged' that Sherlock Holmes would have one believe, but rather an amoral genius - and the only man Holmes has ever been bested by. THE INFERNAL DEVICE takes Professor Moriarty from London to Stamboul to Moscow and back, Sherlock Holmes close on his tail, until they both join forces to pursue and capture a man more devious and more dangerous than either of them has ever faced before..."