Moriarty the Patriot GNs 3 & 4 – Review

There’s something fascinating about the way that this story is unfolding. In no small part that’s due to the way that the other characters all view William Moriarty. That’s really the focus of the second half of the third volume, a loose adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Conan Doyle’s third Sherlock Holmes novel. (While I admit to some disappointment that the series isn’t going fully in order, The Sign of the Four, the second novel, is particularly convoluted and might be hard to adapt.) The story develops both Fred and Louis more than they have been previously, but more importantly it looks at how both of those characters perceive William. Fred, when he discovers that the compatriots of the shipboard case’s villain are still child-hunting, isn’t sure William will want to go after them because they’ve already done that mission. Louis, meanwhile, is hurt that he isn’t…