Professor Moriarty was set as Sherlock Holmes' arch-enemy and lone intellectual equal. Though he only appeared in two of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, it was implied that he was the absolute patriarch of a sinister international criminal ring so subtle as to make their crimes appear entirely unconnected — including many of those which Holmes had solved. Like Moriarty, the Peterson "Professor" is thoroughly bent. Unlike Moriarty, it's a comfortable number, easy in hand and of generous proportions within.