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Originally Posted by gmw
He was also an MP, so between money and influence he was always going to be a hard one to pin anything on.
And yes, we hit the trifecta - he was also clever.
But how did you all feel about Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes stories? He got away with murder and more, time and again. The Man in the Brown Suit turned out to be a stand-alone novel, so Christie never got a chance to turf Pedlar over a waterfall, but I suspect sequels were in mind when she wrote this.
Edited to add: Actually, Moriarty is a bad example - since Doyle makes rather a hash of the chronology in his attempts to kill of Holmes and then rescue him again. Maybe Carl Peterson (in Sapper's Bulldog Drummond stories) would be better, but there are many choices. Hopefully you get the idea, an arch-villain would have suited the type of story.
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But with Moriarty, there was always the notion that the chase was still going. Holmes was always out to get him. Pedlar just...walked away.