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The first two Moriartys-"The Infernal Device,” with the prof and Holmes working to save the British monarchy, and “Death by Gaslight,” in which his quarry is a serial killer who’s bumping off aristocrats-have been collected, along with a short story, “The Paradol Paradox,” in a bulging new trade paperback, “The Infernal Device and Others” (St. Martin’s, $24.95, 296 pages), he forms an uneasy alliance with Holmes and Watson in an attempt to aid two friends who wind up in the middle of an attempted assassination of a German prince. In his new adventure, “The Great Game” (St.

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Though he is far from honest, the Professor Moriarty who appears as the protagonist in Michael Kurland’s series is not quite the villain that Doyle made him. Sherlock shows up to offer his assistance in this dark but witty caper. With her companion Nell, the feisty gun-toting, cigar-puffing Irene is determined to make the city again safe for prostitutes.

The setting is 1889 Paris, where it appears that the dreaded Jack the Ripper is among those attending l’Exposition Universelle. The opera diva-adventuress whom Sherlock referred to as “ the woman” in the story “A Scandal in Bohemia,” Irene Adler, is up to book five of her series by Carole Nelson Douglas, “Chapel Noir” (Forge/Tom Doherty, $25.95, 494 pages). Mortimer and the Aldgate Mystery” (Thomas Dunne Books/St.

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James Mortimer, who introduced Holmes to “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” goes on his own quest to free a captive damsel in Gerard Williams’ “Dr. 4, “The Scottish Ploy,” newly reprinted in trade edition (Forge, $15.95, 352 pages), tosses Mycroft and his secretary, the likable Paterson Guthrie, into a complex maze involving anarchists, a kidnapped actor, phrenology and a beautiful and mysterious young woman. Speaking of Mycroft, he is the subject of a lively new series by authors Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Bill Fawcett writing under the name Quinn Fawcett. In Stephen Kendrick’s “Night Watch” (Pantheon, $23, 273 pages), a brutally murdered cleric leads Sherlock, along with his older and smarter brother, Mycroft, and Watson, to a gathering of international clergymen where he meets and is out-sleuthed by G.K. This time, the trio takes a short hop across the river to Minneapolis where the grim murder of a mill union man sets the stage for a visit from President McKinley. Paul area where he and Watson are assisted by Shadwell Rafferty, a wily Irish giant of a saloonkeeper and self-made sleuth. “Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance” (Viking, $24.95, 336 pages), Larry Millett’s fourth chronicle of the detective’s visits to North America and the St. John Watson solve impossible crimes while bumping into such historical folks as Bram Stoker, Sir Richard Francis Burton and Jane Austen. In 11 new stories by Anne Perry, Bill Crider, Loren Estleman and Stuart Kaminsky, among others, Holmes and his chronicler-companion Dr. Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower (whose biography, “Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle,” won the Edgar Allan Poe Award). The great man is celebrated in “Murder in Baker Street” (Carroll & Graf, $25, 277 pages), an anthology edited by Martin H. This fall has been a particularly active time for him and his Victorian associates. He meant to put an end to his famous character, but public demand forced a revival of the old boy, and, though Doyle faced his own final problem in 1930, Holmes has remained alive and well and has been solving crimes ever since. More than a hundred years ago, in the story “The Final Problem,” Arthur Conan Doyle sent Sherlock Holmes over the Reichenbach Falls, locked in mortal combat with his arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty.