Editing Professor Moriarty (section)

===Family===
The stories give contradictory indications about Moriarty's family. In his first appearance in "[[The Final Problem]]" (1893), the villain is referred to only as "Professor Moriarty". Watson mentions no forename but does refer to the name of another family member when he writes of "the recent letters in which Colonel James Moriarty defends the memory of his brother". In "[[The Adventure of the Empty House]]" (1903), Holmes refers to Moriarty as "Professor James Moriarty". This is the only time Moriarty is given a first name, and oddly, it is the same as that of his purported brother.<ref name=cawthorne>{{cite book |last=Cawthorne |first=Nigel |author-link=Nigel Cawthorne |title=A Brief History of Sherlock Holmes |pages=216–220 |publisher=Robinson |date=201 |isbn=978-0-7624-4408-3}}</ref> In the 1914 novel ''[[The Valley of Fear]]'' (written after the preceding two stories, but set earlier), Holmes says of Professor Moriarty: "He is unmarried. His younger brother is a [[station master]] in the west of England."<ref>{{cite book |title=Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories |volume=2 |author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |publisher=Random House |page=175}}</ref> In ''[[Sherlock Holmes (play)|Sherlock Holmes: A Drama in Four Acts]]'', an 1899 stage play, of which Doyle was a co-author, the villain is named Professor Robert Moriarty.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.diogenes-club.com/sherlockplay2.htm |title=Sherlock Holmes, A Drama in Four Acts. ACT II}}</ref>

Writer [[Vincent Starrett]] suggested that Moriarty could have one brother (who is both a colonel and station master) or two brothers (one a colonel and the other a station master); he added that he considered the presence of two siblings more likely, and suggested that all three brothers were named James.<ref name=Starrett/> Writer [[Leslie S.&nbsp;Klinger]] suggested that Professor Moriarty has an older brother named Colonel James Moriarty in addition to an unnamed younger brother. According to Klinger, writer Ian McQueen proposed that Moriarty does not actually have any brothers,<ref>Klinger, Leslie (ed.). ''The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume II'' (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005). p.&nbsp;811. {{ISBN|0-393-05916-2}}.</ref> while Sherlockian John Bennett Shaw suggested, like Starrett, that there are three Moriarty brothers, all named James.<ref>Klinger, Leslie (ed.). ''The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume III'' (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006). pp.&nbsp;652–653. {{ISBN|0-393-05800-X}}.</ref>