" Some said Jack Quartz, vivisectionist and educator, was to the Americas what Moriarty was to Britain. You were well advised not to suggest the equivalence in either’s earshot. I knew Quartz was still smarting over Moriarty’s Surprise Valley Gold Mine coup, a foot set in his sphere of influence.
Quartz had supposedly secret treaties with the Unione Corse and the Camorra in Southern Europe and Dr Nikolai and the Si-Fan in Asia.
Outwardly, Moriarty and Quartz maintained courteous, professional relations; each would refer petitioners departing for foreign shores to the other.”












