The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Characters

One thing that's a bit challenging about talking about Holmes's character in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is that most of the spadework establishing what he's like is accomplished in the earli...

Poor Watson: he kind of gets the short end of the stick. The fuzzy end of the lollipop. A bum rap. All twelve of these stories are told from his first-person perspective, and yet, when we look back...

Ah yes, "to Sherlock Holmes [Irene Adler] is always the woman" (Bohemia.1.1). Irene Adler only appears in one of Conan Doyle's dozens of stories, but Watson takes care to point out that she remains...

Lestrade's not exactly a well-rounded character: he mostly appears in just "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" and "The Noble Bachelor," and mainly only to prove how skilled and versatile Holmes is. Lest...

Godfrey Norton – Lawyer and Irene Adler's fiancé.Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein and Hereditary King of Bohemia – Holmes's client and forme...

Jabez Wilson – Pawnshop owner, red-headed man, Holmes's client, and all-around dunce.John Clay (alias Vincent Spaulding) – Major criminal who has been posing as Wilson's assistant in or...

Mary Sutherland – Holmes's client, a typist and the victim of a scheme to keep her unmarried.Mrs. Windibank – Sutherland's mother and co-conspirator with Mr. Windibank. Mr. Windibank (a...

John Turner – Elderly man from Australia who has established a fine estate in England.Miss Turner – John Turner's daughter and James McCarthy's beloved. Charles McCarthy – A fello...

John Openshaw – Young man whose father and uncle have both died under mysterious circumstances after receiving an envelope containing five orange seeds. Elias Openshaw – Uncle and benef...

Isa Whitney – Opium addict and one of Watson's friends. Kate Whitney – Wife of Isa, friend of Mrs. Watson. It's on her behalf that Watson visits the opium den where he then finds Holmes...

Henry Baker – An elderly, poor man whose loss of a hat and a goose is what first pulls Holmes into the case of the Blue Carbuncle. James Ryder – Hotel employee and thief.Peterson the Co...

Helen Stoner – Holmes's client and the only surviving Stoner.Julia Stoner – Helen's twin sister, tragically murdered two years before this story.Dr. Grimesby Roylott – Final heir...

Colonel Lysander Stark – Head of a counterfeiting gang who's also a murderer.Victor Hatherley – Hydraulics engineer whose thumb gives the story its title. Elise – The mysterious G...

Lord Robert St. Simon – Holmes's client, a nobleman whose wife has disappeared about ten minutes after their wedding. Hatty Doran – The missing wife, and the daughter of an American mil...

Alexander Holder – One partner in a private bank that's known for loaning money to wealthy families. Holmes's client.Arthur Holder – Alexander's gambler son, suspected of stealing a pie...

Violet Hunter – A governess and Holmes's client. Mr. Rucastle – Hunter's employer, an apparently friendly man with a terrible, terrible temper.Mrs. Rucastle – Mr. Rucastle's secon...