The Mammoth Book of the Adventures of Professor Moriarty

Эндрю Лейн, Питер Гаттридж, Дэвид Стюарт Дэвис, Эми Майерс, Конрад Уильямс, Рис Хьюз, Максим Якубовски, Барбара Надел, Клод Лалюмьер, Майкл Грегорио, Мартин Эдвардс, Джош Рейнольдс, Леви Тидхар, Vanessa de Sade, Christine Poulson, David N. Smith, Violet Addison, Keith Moray, Ashley R. Lister, Jan Edwards, Jill Braden, Anoushka Havinden, Mike Chinn, G. H. Finn, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Jürgen Ehlers, Rose Biggin, Лен Тайлер, Джули Новакова, Томас Рош, Кейт Эллис, Присцилла Мастерс, Кэтрин Ландофф, Элисон Джозеф, Александра Таунсенд, Джон Соунс, Говард Хэлстид, Рассел Маклин, Стив Кавана

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It is said that the devil has all the best lines and who are we to contradict this?

Heroes come, triumph against terrible adversity and eventually end up in the land of happy-ever-after, but you and I know that the baddies are more often the ones that stay in the mind. In books, movies, comics and, less seductively, also sometimes in real life.

Of course, we all remember James Bond’s exploits, but it’s the larger than life figures of Auric Goldfinger, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Doctor No, Oddjob, Jaws and other representations of evil who come to mind. Think back: Hannibal Lecter, the Joker, Lex Luthor, Hyde on the dark side of Jekyll, Jack the Ripper, Fu Manchu, the Deaf Man in Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct police procedurals, Long John Silver, Captain Hook, Tom Ripley – Patricia Highsmith’s chilling but suave killer and manipulator – Bill Sykes, Sauron, Patrick Bateman – the anti-hero of ‘American Psycho’ – Dracula, Voldermort, the list could prove endless.

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