velokyrie's review
4.0
Please find my review at: http://echoes-empty-mind.blogspot.com/2015/01/book-review-moriarty-dark-chamber-by.html
unevendays's review
3.0
In an alternative universe, it was Sherlock Holmes who went over the falls at Reichenbach, and Professor Moriarty who survives, albeit in a much diminished form. His criminal network is all but lost and he is reduced to being “a sort of investigator for the criminal element”, when he is called upon to find the missing Mycroft Holmes and at last finds the first real challenge he's had since 'The Final Problem'.
I really enjoyed the story, and the art, but there were just a few things that really annoyed me about this series. For one, locating Durham university in London, and not, well, Durham. Talking in the famously-silent Diogenes Club was another. Disregarding the physical description of Moriarty given by Doyle and to an extent the character as well (this Moriarty has dramatic sword fighting scenes, whereas Doyle's Moriarty is a scholarly type who has others to do his dirty work). Not enough to ruin it, obviously. It's still very enjoyable, and I'm currently working my way through the second arc in the series, 'The Lazarus Tree'.
I really enjoyed the story, and the art, but there were just a few things that really annoyed me about this series. For one, locating Durham university in London, and not, well, Durham. Talking in the famously-silent Diogenes Club was another. Disregarding the physical description of Moriarty given by Doyle and to an extent the character as well (this Moriarty has dramatic sword fighting scenes, whereas Doyle's Moriarty is a scholarly type who has others to do his dirty work). Not enough to ruin it, obviously. It's still very enjoyable, and I'm currently working my way through the second arc in the series, 'The Lazarus Tree'.
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