{ "schemaVersion": 1, "slug": "the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes", "title": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", "author": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "language": "English", "spoilers": true, "characters": [ { "name": "Dr. John Watson", "aliases": [ "Watson", "Doctor" ], "description": "The story’s narrator, a physician and Sherlock Holmes’s friend and occasional collaborator. He records Holmes’s cases and assists him in investigating them." }, { "name": "Sherlock Holmes", "aliases": [ "Holmes", "Mr. Sherlock Holmes" ], "description": "A celebrated consulting detective known for keen observation, disguise, and deduction. He investigates cases with Watson’s help." }, { "name": "Irene Adler", "aliases": [ "Irene Norton", "The Woman", "Mademoiselle" ], "description": "An American contralto and former opera singer who outwits Holmes while protecting a compromising photograph of herself with the King of Bohemia. She marries Godfrey Norton and leaves England; Holmes regards her as uniquely formidable." }, { "name": "Mary Jane", "aliases": [], "description": "Watson’s careless servant girl; his wife has given her notice." }, { "name": "Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein", "aliases": [ "Count Von Kramm", "King of Bohemia", "His Majesty" ], "description": "The hereditary King of Bohemia, who hires Holmes to recover a compromising photograph held by Irene Adler. He is engaged to Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen." }, { "name": "Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen", "aliases": [], "description": "The second daughter of the King of Scandinavia and the King of Bohemia’s intended bride. The King fears that the photograph Irene Adler holds could end their marriage." }, { "name": "Godfrey Norton", "aliases": [ "Mr. Norton" ], "description": "An English lawyer of the Inner Temple who marries Irene Adler. He and Irene leave England together." }, { "name": "John", "aliases": [ "the coachman" ], "description": "Irene Adler’s coachman, whom she sends to watch Holmes after recognizing his interest in her." }, { "name": "Holmes’s landlady", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Turner" ], "description": "The landlady at Baker Street who provides food and informs Watson when Holmes is away." }, { "name": "The clergyman at St. Monica’s", "aliases": [ "the surpliced clergyman" ], "description": "A clergyman who marries Irene Adler and Godfrey Norton, requiring Watson to serve as their witness." }, { "name": "Jabez Wilson", "aliases": [ "Mr. Wilson" ], "description": "A red-haired London pawnbroker who consults Holmes after a supposed league pays him to copy an encyclopedia and then abruptly dissolves." }, { "name": "Vincent Spaulding", "aliases": [ "Archie" ], "description": "Wilson’s quick, clean-shaven assistant, who steers Wilson toward the Red-Headed League and helps manage the pawnbroker’s shop in his absence. He is John Clay’s accomplice and has very red hair." }, { "name": "Ezekiah Hopkins", "aliases": [], "description": "A deceased American millionaire from Lebanon, Pennsylvania, whose bequest supposedly funds the Red-Headed League for red-haired men." }, { "name": "Duncan Ross", "aliases": [], "description": "The red-haired manager who recruits Wilson for the Red-Headed League; he is later identified as an assumed name used by a solicitor." }, { "name": "William Morris", "aliases": [], "description": "The solicitor who used a landlord’s room under the name Duncan Ross while posing as the Red-Headed League’s manager." }, { "name": "The accountant landlord", "aliases": [ "the landlord" ], "description": "The accountant who rents a temporary room to the man Wilson knows as Duncan Ross and identifies him as William Morris." }, { "name": "The fourteen-year-old girl", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed girl who does simple cooking and cleaning in Wilson’s household." }, { "name": "Peter Jones", "aliases": [ "Mr. Jones", "Jones" ], "description": "A Scotland Yard police agent who joins Holmes and Watson in the investigation of the Red-Headed League robbery. He is brave and tenacious, and has pursued John Clay for years." }, { "name": "Mr. Merryweather", "aliases": [ "Merryweather" ], "description": "A bank director and chairman of the directors whose bank holds French gold targeted by John Clay and his accomplice. He accompanies Holmes, Watson, and Jones during the attempted robbery’s interception." }, { "name": "John Clay", "aliases": [ "young John Clay", "Mr. John Clay" ], "description": "A highly accomplished criminal with royal ancestry and an education at Eton and Oxford. He masterminds the Red-Headed League deception to keep Jabez Wilson away while he and Vincent Spaulding tunnel toward the bank’s bullion." }, { "name": "The bank inspector", "aliases": [ "the inspector" ], "description": "An unnamed police inspector stationed with two officers at the bank’s front door to prevent the robbers from escaping." }, { "name": "The two bank officers", "aliases": [ "the officers" ], "description": "Two unnamed police officers waiting with an inspector at the bank’s front door to help prevent the robbers’ escape." }, { "name": "The boy in buttons", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed household servant who announces Mary Sutherland to Holmes and Watson." }, { "name": "The Dundas husband", "aliases": [ "the husband in the Dundas separation case" ], "description": "A teetotaler whose unusual cruelty toward his wife consisted of throwing his false teeth at her after meals. Holmes had helped clarify points in the separation case." }, { "name": "The Dundas wife", "aliases": [ "the wife in the Dundas separation case" ], "description": "The wife in the Dundas separation case, at whom her husband threw his false teeth after meals." }, { "name": "Mrs. Etherege", "aliases": [], "description": "A woman who told Mary Sutherland about Holmes after he found Mrs. Etherege’s husband, whom the police had given up for dead." }, { "name": "Mr. Etherege", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Etherege’s husband" ], "description": "A man whom Holmes found after the police and others had given him up for dead." }, { "name": "The reigning family of Holland", "aliases": [], "description": "A royal family that gave Holmes a ring in return for help with a delicate matter." }, { "name": "Gustave Flaubert", "aliases": [], "description": "A writer whose words Holmes quotes about the importance of the work over the individual." }, { "name": "George Sand", "aliases": [], "description": "A writer to whom Gustave Flaubert wrote the words Holmes quotes." }, { "name": "Miss Mary Sutherland", "aliases": [ "Mary Sutherland" ], "description": "A short-sighted typist with an independent income who asks Holmes to find her vanished fiancé, Hosmer Angel. She remains devoted to him after Holmes discovers that the supposed fiancé was a disguise created by her stepfather." }, { "name": "James Windibank", "aliases": [ "Mr. Windibank", "Mary Sutherland’s stepfather", "Hosmer Angel" ], "description": "Mary Sutherland’s stepfather, a wine firm’s traveller who disguises himself as Hosmer Angel to keep her from marrying and preserve access to her income. Holmes exposes the deception, though Windibank escapes without legal punishment." }, { "name": "Mary Sutherland’s mother", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Windibank", "Mary’s mother" ], "description": "Mary Sutherland’s mother, who married James Windibank after her first husband died. She assists Windibank’s scheme by encouraging Mary’s supposed courtship with Hosmer Angel." }, { "name": "Mary Sutherland’s father", "aliases": [ "Mary’s deceased father" ], "description": "A deceased plumber who ran a business on Tottenham Court Road. His widow continued the business with the foreman before marrying James Windibank." }, { "name": "Mr. Hardy", "aliases": [ "Hardy" ], "description": "The former foreman of Mary Sutherland’s father’s plumbing business. He accompanies Mary and her mother to the gasfitters’ ball." }, { "name": "Uncle Ned", "aliases": [], "description": "Mary Sutherland’s deceased uncle, who left her money invested in New Zealand stock." }, { "name": "Anstruther", "aliases": [], "description": "A colleague who could cover Watson’s medical work while Watson travelled with Holmes." }, { "name": "The unnamed patient", "aliases": [ "the sufferer" ], "description": "An unnamed patient whose serious illness occupies Watson’s attention the day after Mary Sutherland consults Holmes." }, { "name": "Dr. John Watson’s wife", "aliases": [ "Watson’s wife" ], "description": "Watson’s wife, who encourages him to join Holmes on the Boscombe Valley case and suggests that Anstruther can cover his work." }, { "name": "The old woman witness", "aliases": [ "the old woman" ], "description": "An unnamed witness who saw Charles McCarthy walking alone toward Boscombe Pool." }, { "name": "William Crowder", "aliases": [ "the game-keeper" ], "description": "A game-keeper employed by John Turner who saw Charles McCarthy and later James McCarthy heading toward Boscombe Pool." }, { "name": "John Turner", "aliases": [ "Mr. Turner" ], "description": "A wealthy landowner who made his money in Australia and owns the Boscombe Valley estate and Hatherley Farm. He killed Charles McCarthy to escape his blackmail and prevent his daughter Alice from being forced into marriage with James; he later confesses to Holmes and dies after a prolonged illness." }, { "name": "Charles McCarthy", "aliases": [ "Mr. McCarthy", "the elder McCarthy" ], "description": "An ex-Australian and tenant farmer at Hatherley whose murder leads Holmes to investigate the Boscombe Valley case. He blackmailed John Turner and tried to arrange his son James’s marriage to Turner’s daughter." }, { "name": "James McCarthy", "aliases": [ "young Mr. McCarthy", "the young man" ], "description": "Charles McCarthy’s eighteen-year-old son, arrested for his father’s murder. He is innocent, secretly married to a barmaid, and deeply in love with Alice Turner; Holmes secures his acquittal." }, { "name": "Patience Moran", "aliases": [ "the girl of fourteen" ], "description": "The fourteen-year-old daughter of the Boscombe Valley estate’s lodge-keeper. She witnesses Charles and James McCarthy apparently quarrelling near the pool." }, { "name": "The lodge-keeper", "aliases": [ "the lodge-keeper’s mother" ], "description": "An unnamed woman whose daughter, Patience Moran, reports seeing the McCarthys quarrelling. James McCarthy comes to her lodge for help after finding his father dead." }, { "name": "John Cobb", "aliases": [ "the groom" ], "description": "The groom who drove Charles McCarthy to Ross on the day of the murder." }, { "name": "The maid at Hatherley Farm", "aliases": [ "the maid" ], "description": "An unnamed servant who tells James McCarthy that his father had gone to Ross with the groom, John Cobb." }, { "name": "The inspector of constabulary", "aliases": [ "the arresting inspector" ], "description": "An unnamed police inspector who informs James McCarthy that he is under arrest for his father’s murder." }, { "name": "Lestrade", "aliases": [ "Mr. Lestrade" ], "description": "A Scotland Yard detective who investigates Charles McCarthy’s murder and refers the case to Holmes when he is puzzled. He initially considers the evidence against James conclusive." }, { "name": "Miss Turner", "aliases": [ "John Turner’s daughter", "Alice Turner" ], "description": "John Turner’s only daughter, who has known James McCarthy since childhood and is convinced he is innocent. She is named Alice; her father killed Charles McCarthy partly to keep her from being drawn into a marriage scheme." }, { "name": "Dr. Willows", "aliases": [], "description": "John Turner’s doctor, who says Turner is a wreck with a shattered nervous system and does not permit visitors." }, { "name": "The coroner", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed official who presides over the inquest into Charles McCarthy’s death and questions James about the quarrel, his father’s last words, and a missing object." }, { "name": "The juryman", "aliases": [ "a juryman" ], "description": "An unnamed member of the inquest jury who asks James McCarthy whether he saw anything suspicious near his father’s body." }, { "name": "Hafiz", "aliases": [], "description": "A poet whose saying Holmes invokes when explaining why he will not tell Mary Sutherland that Hosmer Angel was her stepfather in disguise." }, { "name": "Horace", "aliases": [], "description": "A poet whom Holmes compares with Hafiz when reflecting on knowledge of the world." }, { "name": "John Openshaw", "aliases": [], "description": "A young man who asks Holmes for help after a secret society threatens him with five orange pips. He is the nephew of Elias Openshaw and son of Joseph Openshaw, and is later found dead after apparently being driven into the Thames." }, { "name": "Elias Openshaw", "aliases": [ "Colonel Openshaw", "Black Jack of Ballarat" ], "description": "John Openshaw’s uncle, a former Confederate colonel and wealthy Florida planter who settled in Sussex. In Australia he was a highway robber and leader of the Ballarat Gang; after leaving America with the society’s papers, he was pursued and died in a pond." }, { "name": "Joseph Openshaw", "aliases": [ "John Openshaw’s father" ], "description": "Elias Openshaw’s brother and John’s father, who inherited the Sussex estate and the papers connected to the Ku Klux Klan. He died after receiving the society’s warning, in what was ruled an accidental fall." }, { "name": "John Openshaw’s grandfather", "aliases": [ "the Openshaw grandfather" ], "description": "The unnamed grandfather of John Openshaw and father of Elias and Joseph Openshaw." }, { "name": "Mary, the Openshaw household servant", "aliases": [ "Mary" ], "description": "An unnamed household servant whom Elias Openshaw tells John to summon to prepare a fire." }, { "name": "Fordham", "aliases": [ "the Horsham lawyer" ], "description": "The lawyer in Horsham whom Elias Openshaw calls to witness his will." }, { "name": "Major Freebody", "aliases": [ "the major" ], "description": "An old friend of Joseph Openshaw who commands one of the forts on Portsdown Hill. He sends John a telegram after Joseph is found injured." }, { "name": "Major Prendergast", "aliases": [], "description": "A man who recommends John Openshaw consult Holmes. Holmes had previously cleared him of a false accusation of cheating at cards in the Tankerville Club scandal." }, { "name": "McCauley", "aliases": [], "description": "A man listed in Elias Openshaw’s diary as having received the Ku Klux Klan’s warning pips and then left or escaped." }, { "name": "Paramore", "aliases": [], "description": "A man listed in Elias Openshaw’s diary as having received the Ku Klux Klan’s warning pips; the diary later records a visit to him." }, { "name": "John Swain", "aliases": [ "John Swain of St. Augustine" ], "description": "A man listed in Elias Openshaw’s diary as having received the Ku Klux Klan’s warning pips and then left or escaped." }, { "name": "Cuvier", "aliases": [], "description": "A naturalist whom Holmes cites as an example of inferring an entire animal from a single bone." }, { "name": "Baxter", "aliases": [], "description": "A person whose words Holmes recalls while reflecting that, under different circumstances, he might have followed a criminal path himself." }, { "name": "Captain James Calhoun", "aliases": [ "Captain Calhoun" ], "description": "The captain of the barque Lone Star and leader of the gang Holmes identifies as responsible for the Openshaw murders. Holmes sends him an envelope containing five orange pips and alerts Savannah police, but the ship is lost in a storm." }, { "name": "The Lone Star’s two mates", "aliases": [ "the two mates" ], "description": "Two unnamed ship’s officers, the only other native-born Americans aboard the Lone Star, whom Holmes suspects are members of Calhoun’s gang." }, { "name": "Isa Whitney", "aliases": [ "Whitney" ], "description": "An opium addict and Watson’s patient, who is married to Kate Whitney. Watson finds him in an opium den and takes him home." }, { "name": "Elias Whitney", "aliases": [ "the late Elias Whitney, D.D." ], "description": "Isa Whitney’s late brother, who was principal of the Theological College of St. George’s." }, { "name": "Kate Whitney", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Whitney" ], "description": "Isa Whitney’s wife and an old school friend of Watson’s wife. She asks Watson to find her missing husband." }, { "name": "The Malay attendant", "aliases": [ "the attendant" ], "description": "An unnamed attendant at the Bar of Gold opium den who offers Watson a pipe and the drug." }, { "name": "The Lascar opium-den keeper", "aliases": [ "the manager", "the rascally Lascar" ], "description": "The unnamed manager of the Bar of Gold, whom Holmes describes as having sworn vengeance against him." }, { "name": "Neville St. Clair", "aliases": [ "Mr. St. Clair", "Hugh Boone" ], "description": "A well-liked husband and father from Lee who secretly earns a living as a professional beggar disguised as Hugh Boone. After his wife sees him at an opium den, he is arrested on suspicion of murder; Holmes exposes his disguise, and he explains that he hid his double life to spare his children shame." }, { "name": "John, the dog-cart driver", "aliases": [ "the driver" ], "description": "An unnamed driver who brings Holmes and Watson a dog-cart and is told to return the next morning." }, { "name": "The Bar of Gold opium den’s tall, thin old man", "aliases": [ "the disguised old man" ], "description": "Holmes in disguise, posing as an elderly opium smoker while investigating Neville St. Clair’s disappearance." }, { "name": "Police-Constable Cook", "aliases": [ "Cook" ], "description": "A police constable of the H Division who hears a cry and splash near Waterloo Bridge on the night John Openshaw dies." }, { "name": "The water-police", "aliases": [ "the water police" ], "description": "Unnamed police officers who help recover John Openshaw’s body from the Thames." }, { "name": "The defending counsel", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed lawyer who presents Holmes’s objections at the Assizes, helping secure James McCarthy’s acquittal." }, { "name": "Clark Russell", "aliases": [], "description": "A writer of sea stories whom Watson is reading at the start of the Boscombe Valley passage’s later narrative." }, { "name": "Elias Whitney, D.D.", "aliases": [ "the late Elias Whitney" ], "description": "Isa Whitney’s late brother, a doctor of divinity and principal of the Theological College of St. George’s." }, { "name": "De Quincey", "aliases": [], "description": "A writer whose account of opium dreams inspired Isa Whitney to experiment with laudanum." }, { "name": "James", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed household servant in Watson’s home, whom Watson’s wife suggests sending to bed before Kate Whitney explains her troubles." }, { "name": "The Bar of Gold keeper’s trapdoor victims", "aliases": [], "description": "Unnamed people whom Holmes suspects were murdered and removed through a trapdoor at the opium den." }, { "name": "The Cooee-calling visitor to Boscombe Pool", "aliases": [], "description": "The person Charles McCarthy expected to meet at the pool; Holmes deduces this person had been in Australia, and identifies him as John Turner." }, { "name": "Mrs. Neville St. Clair", "aliases": [ "Mrs. St. Clair" ], "description": "Neville St. Clair’s wife, who sees him at an opium den and presses Holmes to investigate his disappearance. She receives a note and his signet ring, and believes he is alive." }, { "name": "The Dane at the opium den", "aliases": [ "the Dane" ], "description": "An unnamed assistant at the opium den who helps the Lascar keeper prevent Mrs. St. Clair from going upstairs." }, { "name": "The inspector at Swandam Lane", "aliases": [ "the inspector" ], "description": "An unnamed inspector who accompanies Mrs. St. Clair to the opium den, investigates the rooms, and oversees Hugh Boone’s arrest." }, { "name": "Hugh Boone", "aliases": [ "Boone", "the beggar" ], "description": "Neville St. Clair’s disguise as a crippled-looking street beggar with a scarred face and red hair. He is arrested when St. Clair’s clothes are found in his room." }, { "name": "Inspector Barton", "aliases": [ "Barton" ], "description": "The inspector in charge of investigating Neville St. Clair’s disappearance at the opium den." }, { "name": "Inspector Bradstreet", "aliases": [ "Bradstreet" ], "description": "A Bow Street police inspector who lets Holmes visit Hugh Boone in custody and witnesses Holmes reveal Boone’s identity as Neville St. Clair." }, { "name": "The stable-boy at The Cedars", "aliases": [ "the stable-boy", "the boy" ], "description": "An unnamed servant at The Cedars who brings out and harnesses the horse for Holmes and Watson." }, { "name": "The Countess of Morcar", "aliases": [ "the Countess" ], "description": "The owner of the blue carbuncle, a valuable jewel stolen from her jewel-case at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. She offers a reward for its recovery and has strong personal reasons for wanting it back." }, { "name": "John Horner", "aliases": [ "Horner" ], "description": "A plumber accused of stealing the Countess of Morcar’s blue carbuncle after being called to repair a grate at the hotel. He is innocent, and the accusation rests on evidence arranged by James Ryder and Catherine Cusack." }, { "name": "James Ryder", "aliases": [ "John Robinson", "Ryder" ], "description": "The head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan who steals the blue carbuncle and frames John Horner. He hides the jewel in a goose at his sister’s home, then begs Holmes for help when he cannot recover it." }, { "name": "Catherine Cusack", "aliases": [ "Cusack", "the Countess’s waiting-maid" ], "description": "The Countess of Morcar’s maid, who tells James Ryder about the blue carbuncle and helps him arrange the theft and frame John Horner." }, { "name": "Peterson", "aliases": [ "the commissionaire" ], "description": "A commissionaire who finds the hat and goose abandoned after a street scuffle and brings them to Holmes. His wife discovers the blue carbuncle in the goose’s crop." }, { "name": "The tall man who lost the goose and hat", "aliases": [ "the unknown gentleman", "the tallish man" ], "description": "An unnamed man who drops a goose and battered hat while fleeing roughs on Christmas morning. He is later revealed to be Henry Baker." }, { "name": "Henry Baker", "aliases": [ "Mr. Henry Baker" ], "description": "A learned but financially troubled man who loses his hat and Christmas goose in a street scuffle. He is innocent of the carbuncle theft and belongs to the Alpha Inn’s goose club." }, { "name": "Mrs. Henry Baker", "aliases": [ "the owner named on the goose’s card" ], "description": "The woman named on a card attached to Henry Baker’s goose; the passage does not otherwise identify her." }, { "name": "The roughs who attack Henry Baker", "aliases": [ "the roughs" ], "description": "An unnamed group of men who start a fight with Henry Baker, knock off his hat, and flee when Peterson intervenes." }, { "name": "Windigate", "aliases": [ "Mr. Windigate", "the Alpha Inn landlord" ], "description": "The landlord of the Alpha Inn who buys geese from Breckinridge and runs the inn’s Christmas goose club." }, { "name": "Breckinridge", "aliases": [ "Mr. Breckinridge", "the salesman" ], "description": "A Covent Garden poultry salesman who supplies geese to the Alpha Inn and sells Mrs. Oakshott’s birds. Holmes gets the supplier’s name from him by making a wager." }, { "name": "The boy Bill", "aliases": [ "Bill" ], "description": "An unnamed boy who helps Breckinridge close his stall and fetches his account books." }, { "name": "The little rat-faced man", "aliases": [ "the inquirer" ], "description": "An unnamed, nervous man who presses Breckinridge for information about a goose and gives Holmes the false name John Robinson before admitting he is James Ryder." }, { "name": "Mrs. Oakshott", "aliases": [ "Maggie", "Ryder’s sister" ], "description": "James Ryder’s sister, a poultry keeper at 117 Brixton Road who raises geese for market. She unknowingly sends the goose containing the carbuncle into the supply chain." }, { "name": "Mr. Oakshott", "aliases": [ "Oakshott" ], "description": "Mrs. Oakshott’s husband, whose surname she took; the passage gives no further details about him." }, { "name": "Maudsley", "aliases": [], "description": "A former friend of James Ryder who has served time in Pentonville for theft. Ryder plans to ask him how to turn the stolen carbuncle into money." }, { "name": "The stable-boy at Bow Street", "aliases": [ "the half-clad stable-boy" ], "description": "An unnamed stable servant who waits with Holmes and Watson’s horse and trap outside Bow Street." }, { "name": "The Covent Garden stall boy", "aliases": [ "the small boy" ], "description": "An unnamed boy who works at Breckinridge’s stall and brings out the supplier books." }, { "name": "The cab driver", "aliases": [ "the driver" ], "description": "An unnamed four-wheeler driver whom Holmes hires to take James Ryder to Baker Street." }, { "name": "Helen Stoner", "aliases": [ "Miss Stoner" ], "description": "Dr. Grimesby Roylott’s stepdaughter and Julia’s twin sister, who asks Holmes to investigate the strange whistle and her sister’s death. She is engaged to Percy Armitage and becomes the target of the same deadly scheme that killed Julia." }, { "name": "Mrs. Hudson", "aliases": [], "description": "Holmes and Watson’s landlady at Baker Street. Holmes wakes her while summoning Watson to meet Helen Stoner." }, { "name": "Mrs. Farintosh", "aliases": [], "description": "A woman Holmes previously helped in a case involving an opal tiara; she recommends him to Helen Stoner." }, { "name": "Dr. Grimesby Roylott", "aliases": [ "Dr. Roylott", "the Doctor" ], "description": "Helen and Julia Stoner’s violent stepfather, a physician and last surviving heir of the Roylott family. He attempts to kill Helen with a trained snake and dies when it turns on him." }, { "name": "The Roylott family’s native butler", "aliases": [ "the native butler" ], "description": "An unnamed butler in India whom Roylott beat to death after accusing him of theft." }, { "name": "The blacksmith", "aliases": [ "the local blacksmith" ], "description": "An unnamed local blacksmith whom Roylott hurled over a parapet into a stream; Helen paid to prevent another public scandal." }, { "name": "The cheetah", "aliases": [], "description": "Roylott’s freely roaming Indian animal, feared by the villagers and encountered by Holmes and Watson near the house." }, { "name": "The baboon", "aliases": [], "description": "Roylott’s freely roaming Indian animal, which startles Holmes and Watson as they cross the lawn at night." }, { "name": "The gypsies at Stoke Moran", "aliases": [ "the gipsies" ], "description": "A group allowed to camp on Roylott’s land and on familiar terms with him. Their presence and Julia’s reference to a “band” initially mislead Holmes." }, { "name": "Julia Stoner", "aliases": [ "Helen’s sister" ], "description": "Helen’s twin sister, who died two years before Helen consults Holmes, shortly before her planned marriage. Her dying words, “the speckled band,” and her report of a nighttime whistle lead to the investigation." }, { "name": "Miss Honoria Westphail", "aliases": [ "Helen and Julia’s aunt" ], "description": "The unmarried sister of Mrs. Stoner, who lives near Harrow and sometimes hosts Helen and Julia. Holmes takes Helen to her care after Roylott’s death." }, { "name": "The half-pay major of marines", "aliases": [ "Julia’s fiancé" ], "description": "An unnamed retired major whom Julia meets at her aunt’s home and becomes engaged to shortly before her death." }, { "name": "Percy Armitage", "aliases": [ "Armitage" ], "description": "Helen Stoner’s longtime friend and intended husband, the second son of Mr. Armitage of Crane Water near Reading." }, { "name": "Mr. Armitage", "aliases": [ "Mr. Armitage of Crane Water" ], "description": "Percy Armitage’s father, who lives at Crane Water near Reading." }, { "name": "The housekeeper at Stoke Moran", "aliases": [ "the housekeeper" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly servant at the Roylott home. Helen says she can arrange for her to be out of the way while Holmes examines the rooms." }, { "name": "The boy who drives Roylott", "aliases": [ "the lad" ], "description": "An unnamed young driver who takes Dr. Roylott home in a trap." }, { "name": "The Crown Inn landlord", "aliases": [ "the landlord" ], "description": "The unnamed landlord of the Crown Inn at Stoke Moran, who speaks briefly with Holmes before Holmes and Watson go to Helen’s room at night." }, { "name": "The swamp adder", "aliases": [ "the serpent", "the snake" ], "description": "A deadly snake from India that Roylott trains to travel through a ventilator and down a dummy bell-rope to bite the woman in the bed. It turns on Roylott and kills him." }, { "name": "Dr. Percy Hatherley", "aliases": [ "Mr. Hatherley", "Victor Hatherley" ], "description": "A young hydraulic engineer who brings Holmes the case of his severed thumb. He is attacked while examining a machine at a secretive country house." }, { "name": "The Paddington railway guard", "aliases": [ "the guard", "Watson’s old ally" ], "description": "A railway guard who brings the injured Victor Hatherley to Watson’s consulting room." }, { "name": "Watson’s maid", "aliases": [ "the maid" ], "description": "An unnamed servant in Watson’s household who announces two visitors from Paddington." }, { "name": "Victor Hatherley’s father", "aliases": [ "Hatherley’s father" ], "description": "Victor Hatherley’s deceased father, whose inheritance gave Victor the funds to start his own hydraulic engineering business." }, { "name": "The clerk at Hatherley’s office", "aliases": [ "his clerk" ], "description": "An unnamed clerk who announces Colonel Lysander Stark to Victor Hatherley." }, { "name": "Colonel Lysander Stark", "aliases": [ "the colonel", "Fritz" ], "description": "A thin, suspicious German criminal who hires Victor Hatherley to inspect a hydraulic press, claiming it is used to compress fuller’s-earth. He traps Hatherley in the press chamber, tries to kill him, and escapes with his gang." }, { "name": "The woman at the country house", "aliases": [ "the frightened woman", "Elise" ], "description": "An unnamed, beautiful woman at Stark’s house who warns Hatherley and helps him escape. Stark calls her Elise and Fritz, and she pleads with him to spare Hatherley." }, { "name": "Mr. Ferguson", "aliases": [ "Ferguson" ], "description": "A short, thickset man with a chinchilla beard whom Stark introduces as his secretary and manager. He is the morose Englishman who helps carry the unconscious Hatherley away from the fire." }, { "name": "The horse that draws Stark’s carriage", "aliases": [ "the chestnut horse" ], "description": "A fresh-looking chestnut horse that pulls the carriage taking Hatherley from Eyford station to Stark’s country house." }, { "name": "Colonel Warburton", "aliases": [], "description": "A man whose madness is one of the two cases Watson says he introduced to Holmes." }, { "name": "The neighbours’ landowners", "aliases": [ "Hatherley’s neighbours" ], "description": "Unnamed landowners whose fields contain fuller’s-earth deposits adjoining the small deposit Stark claims to own." }, { "name": "Jeremiah Hayling", "aliases": [], "description": "A twenty-six-year-old hydraulic engineer who disappeared after leaving his lodgings at night. Holmes infers that Stark’s gang murdered him while he serviced the press." }, { "name": "The plain-clothes man", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed police officer who accompanies Holmes, Watson, Hatherley, and Inspector Bradstreet to Eyford." }, { "name": "The Eyford station-master", "aliases": [ "the station-master" ], "description": "An unnamed station official who tells Holmes’s party that Dr. Becher’s house is burning and that the doctor has a foreign patient staying with him." }, { "name": "The Eyford porter", "aliases": [ "the porter" ], "description": "An unnamed station porter who was on duty when Hatherley arrived and does not recognize Stark’s name or recall a carriage." }, { "name": "Dr. Becher", "aliases": [ "the doctor" ], "description": "An English doctor whose house burns down while his foreign patient is staying there. The text does not identify him as one of Stark’s gang." }, { "name": "The Eyford firemen", "aliases": [ "the firemen" ], "description": "Unnamed firemen who battle the blaze at Dr. Becher’s house and discover Hatherley’s severed thumb." }, { "name": "The silent Englishman", "aliases": [ "the morose Englishman" ], "description": "An unnamed member of Stark’s gang who probably helps Elise carry the unconscious Hatherley away from the burning house. His identity and whereabouts remain unknown." }, { "name": "Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon", "aliases": [ "Lord Robert St. Simon", "Lord St. Simon", "Robert" ], "description": "A British nobleman who marries Hatty Doran, only for her to disappear at their wedding breakfast. Holmes discovers that her first husband has returned, and St. Simon remains offended by the abrupt end of the marriage." }, { "name": "Miss Hatty Doran", "aliases": [ "Hatty Doran", "Lady St. Simon", "Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton" ], "description": "A wealthy Californian heiress who marries Lord St. Simon but leaves him on their wedding day after seeing her first husband, Francis Hay Moulton, alive. She had secretly married Moulton years earlier and believed him dead." }, { "name": "Aloysius Doran", "aliases": [ "Mr. Doran", "Pa" ], "description": "Hatty Doran’s wealthy father, who made his fortune in mining. He opposed her early engagement to Francis Hay Moulton and brought her to England." }, { "name": "Lord Backwater", "aliases": [], "description": "A nobleman who recommends Holmes to Lord St. Simon and offers his estate near Petersfield for the newlyweds’ honeymoon." }, { "name": "The Duchess of Balmoral", "aliases": [], "description": "Lord St. Simon’s mother, who attends his wedding to Hatty Doran." }, { "name": "Lord Eustace St. Simon", "aliases": [ "Lord Eustace" ], "description": "Lord St. Simon’s younger brother, who attends the wedding." }, { "name": "Lady Clara St. Simon", "aliases": [ "Lady Clara" ], "description": "Lord St. Simon’s younger sister, who attends the wedding." }, { "name": "Lady Alicia Whittington", "aliases": [], "description": "A guest at Lord St. Simon and Hatty Doran’s wedding." }, { "name": "The woman who disrupts the wedding breakfast", "aliases": [ "the woman with a claim on Lord St. Simon" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who tries to enter Aloysius Doran’s house, claiming a connection to Lord St. Simon. She is ejected by the household staff; the text does not establish that she is Flora Millar." }, { "name": "The butler and footman at Lancaster Gate", "aliases": [ "the butler", "the footman" ], "description": "Unnamed household servants who eject the woman attempting to force her way into the Doran home after the wedding." }, { "name": "Hatty Doran’s maid", "aliases": [ "Alice" ], "description": "Hatty’s American maid from California and a friend of Francis Hay Moulton. She helps Hatty prepare to leave the wedding breakfast and explains that Hatty hurried from the house." }, { "name": "The footman at Lancaster Gate", "aliases": [ "one of the footmen" ], "description": "An unnamed servant who sees a woman leave the Doran home in an ulster and bonnet but does not realize she is the bride." }, { "name": "Miss Flora Millar", "aliases": [ "Flora Millar", "Flora" ], "description": "A former danseuse at the Allegro who was Lord St. Simon’s lover and is arrested on suspicion of helping Hatty disappear. She is jealous and hot-headed, but Hatty later says she escaped from Flora after their encounter." }, { "name": "The two plain-clothes policemen at Lancaster Gate", "aliases": [ "the police fellows" ], "description": "Two unnamed officers who help eject Flora Millar from the Doran home after she makes a scene." }, { "name": "The King of Scandinavia", "aliases": [], "description": "A king whom Holmes previously assisted in a private case; Lord St. Simon learns of the earlier client during their conversation." }, { "name": "The man in the church pew", "aliases": [ "the common-looking gentleman" ], "description": "An unnamed man in the church who returns Hatty Doran’s dropped bouquet and slips her a note. He is later revealed to be her first husband, Francis Hay Moulton." }, { "name": "The clergyman at St. George’s, Hanover Square", "aliases": [ "the clergyman" ], "description": "An unnamed clergyman who performs the wedding ceremony of Lord St. Simon and Hatty Doran." }, { "name": "The park-keeper", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed park-keeper who finds Hatty’s wedding clothes floating near the margin of the Serpentine." }, { "name": "The confectioner’s man", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed delivery man who brings a supper ordered for Holmes’s guests." }, { "name": "The youth accompanying the confectioner’s man", "aliases": [ "the youth" ], "description": "An unnamed youth who helps unpack and lay out the supper at Baker Street." }, { "name": "Francis Hay Moulton", "aliases": [ "Frank", "Mr. Francis H. Moulton" ], "description": "Hatty Doran’s first husband, whom she married secretly before he left to seek his fortune. After surviving captivity among the Apaches, he finds her in England and reunites with her on her second wedding day." }, { "name": "Alexander Holder", "aliases": [ "Mr. Holder" ], "description": "The senior partner of the banking firm Holder & Stevenson. He asks Holmes to investigate the damage to the Beryl Coronet and the apparent theft of three of its stones." }, { "name": "The unnamed noble client", "aliases": [ "Holder’s exalted client" ], "description": "An unnamed, highly prominent person in England who pledges the Beryl Coronet as security for a short-term loan from Alexander Holder. The passage withholds the client’s name." }, { "name": "The cashier at Holder & Stevenson", "aliases": [ "the cashier" ], "description": "An unnamed bank employee whom Holder calls to pay the noble client’s loan in banknotes." }, { "name": "Lucy Parr", "aliases": [ "Lucy" ], "description": "The second waiting-maid in Alexander Holder’s household, newly hired and considered reliable despite having admirers who sometimes wait near the house." }, { "name": "Arthur Holder", "aliases": [ "Arthur" ], "description": "Alexander Holder’s only son, whom his father says he spoiled. He is deeply in debt from gambling and asks Mary Holder to marry him, but she refuses; he is falsely accused of stealing the Beryl Coronet after trying to recover it from Sir George Burnwell." }, { "name": "Mary Holder", "aliases": [ "Mary", "Holder’s niece" ], "description": "Alexander Holder’s niece, whom he adopted as his daughter after her father died. She conspires with her lover Sir George Burnwell to steal the Beryl Coronet and flees with him." }, { "name": "Sir George Burnwell", "aliases": [ "George Burnwell" ], "description": "A worldly, charming but desperate gambler who steals three stones from the Beryl Coronet with Mary Holder’s help. Holmes recovers the gems from him and avoids prosecution to prevent a public scandal." }, { "name": "The police inspector at Baker Street", "aliases": [ "the police inspector" ], "description": "An unnamed inspector who suggests that Alexander Holder seek Holmes’s help." }, { "name": "The bank clerk who brings the client’s card", "aliases": [ "the clerk" ], "description": "An unnamed clerk at Holder & Stevenson who brings Alexander Holder the noble client’s visiting card." }, { "name": "Holder’s groom", "aliases": [ "the groom" ], "description": "An unnamed member of Alexander Holder’s household staff who sleeps outside the house." }, { "name": "Holder’s page", "aliases": [ "the page" ], "description": "An unnamed member of Alexander Holder’s household staff who sleeps outside the house." }, { "name": "The housemaid at Fairbank", "aliases": [ "the housemaid" ], "description": "An unnamed servant in Alexander Holder’s household whom he sends for the police after finding Arthur with the damaged coronet." }, { "name": "The inspector and constable at Fairbank", "aliases": [ "the inspector", "a constable" ], "description": "Unnamed police officers who come to Fairbank after Alexander Holder reports the damaged coronet. They arrest Arthur Holder." }, { "name": "The young lady at Fairbank", "aliases": [ "Miss Holder" ], "description": "Mary Holder, Alexander Holder’s niece, who urges him to believe Arthur innocent and later flees with Sir George Burnwell." }, { "name": "Francis Prosper", "aliases": [ "the greengrocer" ], "description": "A greengrocer who delivers vegetables to Fairbank and meets Lucy Parr near the kitchen door. He has a wooden leg and is Lucy’s sweetheart." }, { "name": "The wooden-legged greengrocer’s sweetheart", "aliases": [ "the maid at Fairbank" ], "description": "Lucy Parr, an unnamed servant in the account of the incident, who meets Francis Prosper by the kitchen door. Her visit and her true explanation are initially used to mislead Alexander Holder." }, { "name": "Violet Hunter", "aliases": [ "Miss Hunter" ], "description": "A resourceful governess who consults Holmes about an unusually lucrative position at the Copper Beeches. She accepts the situation, discovers a prisoner in the house, and helps Holmes and Watson investigate." }, { "name": "Colonel Spence Munro", "aliases": [ "the colonel" ], "description": "Violet Hunter’s former employer, who moved with his children to Halifax, Nova Scotia, after receiving an appointment there." }, { "name": "Westaway", "aliases": [ "the founder of Westaway’s" ], "description": "The founder of a West End employment agency for governesses; the agency is managed by Miss Stoper." }, { "name": "Miss Stoper", "aliases": [], "description": "The manageress of Westaway’s governess agency. She interviews Violet Hunter and is annoyed when Hunter declines an unusual job offer." }, { "name": "Jephro Rucastle", "aliases": [ "Mr. Rucastle" ], "description": "A wealthy Hampshire landowner who hires Violet Hunter as governess and insists she cut her hair and wear a particular dress. He imprisons his daughter Alice and has Violet impersonate her; after his dog attacks him, he survives but is left a broken man." }, { "name": "Mrs. Rucastle", "aliases": [ "Mr. Rucastle’s wife" ], "description": "Jephro Rucastle’s much younger second wife and mother of Edward. She is devoted to her husband and son but secretly distressed by the situation involving Rucastle’s imprisoned daughter; she continues caring for her husband after his injury." }, { "name": "Edward Rucastle", "aliases": [ "little Edward", "the child" ], "description": "Jephro and Mrs. Rucastle’s spoiled six-year-old son, whose cruel treatment of small animals alarms Violet Hunter and Holmes." }, { "name": "Alice Rucastle", "aliases": [ "Mr. Rucastle’s daughter", "the daughter in Philadelphia", "Miss Rucastle" ], "description": "Jephro Rucastle’s daughter from his first marriage, who had rights to money under a will. After refusing to sign away control of it, she was confined by her father; she escapes with her fiancé, Mr. Fowler, and marries him." }, { "name": "Toller", "aliases": [ "the groom" ], "description": "A rough, frequently drunken servant at the Copper Beeches who is the only person able to control the mastiff Carlo. He and his wife are involved in keeping Alice Rucastle confined, though he helps rescue Rucastle after the dog attacks him." }, { "name": "Mrs. Toller", "aliases": [ "Toller’s wife" ], "description": "A tall, strong servant at the Copper Beeches who helps keep Alice Rucastle imprisoned. She befriends Alice and later explains the confinement scheme to Holmes." }, { "name": "Carlo", "aliases": [ "the mastiff" ], "description": "Jephro Rucastle’s large, dangerous dog, kept chained in an outhouse and let loose at night to guard the grounds. It attacks Rucastle after being released while unfed." }, { "name": "Lord Southerton", "aliases": [], "description": "The owner of the woods surrounding the Copper Beeches, which form part of his preserves." }, { "name": "The small bearded man on the road", "aliases": [ "the man in the grey suit" ], "description": "An unnamed man who watches the Copper Beeches from the road while Violet Hunter is made to sit by the window. He is later identified as Alice Rucastle’s fiancé, Mr. Fowler." }, { "name": "Mr. Fowler", "aliases": [ "the small bearded man on the road", "the man in the grey suit", "Alice Rucastle’s fiancé" ], "description": "A persevering seaman who loves Alice Rucastle and blockades the Copper Beeches while she is held there. 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