# His Last Bow — Character guide

> Key figures in His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle.

- [Sherlock Holmes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/sherlock_holmes.md): Holmes is the consulting detective whose mind, idle, tears itself apart like an engine disconnected from its work; he greets each new problem with a mischievous twinkle and a definition of the grotesque as something trag
- [Dr. Watson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/dr_watson.md): Watson is the army doctor who stands by Holmes even when Holmes forbids him to fetch help, insists on strange instructions about half-crowns and pocket change, and screams at him for touching a small ivory box. His tensi
- [Von Bork](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/von_bork.md): Von Bork is the embassy's man in England, a bald, cigar-puffing collector of pigeonholed intelligence on forts, harbours, and naval signals, and he measures his four years of work by the gem still missing from his safe. 
- [Arthur Cadogan West](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/cadogan_west.md): Cadogan West is the young government clerk found dead with stolen naval documents, a figure whose fate turns a routine investigation into a puzzle of loyalty and betrayal. The case against him looks simple, but the detai
- [Gennaro Lucca](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/gennaro_lucca.md): Gennaro is a fugitive husband whose tenderness for his wife, the splendid beautiful Gennaro's other half, is matched by the enemies who want them both silenced. He is caught between hiding and protecting, and his devotio
- [Mortimer Tregennis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/mortimer_tregennis.md): Mortimer Tregennis is the brother who left his family playing cards in excellent spirits and returned to find his sister dead and his brothers laughing, shouting, and singing with terror frozen on their faces. He sits wi
- [Lady Frances Carfax](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/lady_frances_carfax.md): Lady Frances is a woman of precise habits and limited means, the sole survivor of an earldom whose estates passed to the male line. She clings to her old Spanish silver and curiously cut diamonds with a devotion that bor
- [Dr. Leon Sterndale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/dr_leon_sterndale.md): Sterndale is a man of two worlds: the celebrated lion-hunter and explorer whose name commands respect, and the shadowy figure who returns to England with a purpose he will not name. His connection to the Cornish coast an
- [Inspector Baynes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/inspector_baynes.md): Baynes is the local man on the Oxshott murder, and he makes no secret of his intention to work on his own lines rather than defer to the famous consulting detective. His genial red face and glittering eyes conceal a meth
- [Mr. Garcia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/mr_garcia.md): Garcia arrives in the quiet Surrey neighborhood as a man of evident education and continental polish, but his insistence on paying well above the going rate for his lodgings and his odd hours mark him as someone with som
- [Mycroft Holmes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/mycroft_holmes.md): Mycroft draws four hundred and fifty pounds a year, holds no title, and has no ambition, yet his mind is the central clearinghouse through which every department's conclusions pass. He is the most indispensable man in th
- [Inspector Gregson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/inspector_gregson.md): A Scotland Yard detective who occasionally consults Holmes.
- [Sir James Walter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/sir_james_walter.md): A deceased government official involved in the submarine plans theft.
- [Inspector Lestrade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/inspector_lestrade.md): A Scotland Yard detective who often seeks Holmes's assistance.
- [Mr. Culverton Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/mr_culverton_smith.md): A planter from Sumatra who is a suspect in a murder case.
- [Mrs. Warren](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/mrs_warren.md): The landlady of a boarding house where a mysterious lodger stays.
- [Giuseppe Gorgiano](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/giuseppe_gorgiano.md): A member of the Red Circle criminal organization.
- [Mr. John Scott Eccles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/mr_john_scott_eccles.md): A gentleman who becomes involved in a murder investigation.
- [Altamont](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/altamont.md): An Irish-American spy working for Holmes against German agents.
- [Henry Peters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/henry_peters.md): A man involved in the disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax.
- [Mr. Sidney Johnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/mr_sidney_johnson.md): A clerk who provides information about the Bruce-Partington plans.
- [Sir George Ffolliott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/sir_george_ffolliott.md): A baronet who appears in the Wisteria Lodge case.
- [Constable Walters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/constable_walters.md): A police constable who assists in the Bruce-Partington case.
- [Baron Von Herling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/baron_von_herling.md): A German diplomat involved in espionage activities.
- [Colonel Valentine Walter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/colonel_valentine_walter.md): A military officer involved in the Bruce-Partington plans affair.

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