Adam Worth
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Adam Worth (1844-1902) was a German-born gentleman criminal. Scotland Yard detective Robert Anderson gave him a nickname, "the Napoleon of the criminal world", and he is commonly referred to as "the Napoleon of Crime". It has been widely speculated that Arthur Conan Doyle used Worth as the prototype for Sherlock Holmes's nemesis, Professor Moriarty.
Adam Worth was born into a poor Jew family in Germany in 1844. His original surname might have been Werth. When he was five years old, his family...
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