# Arthur Cadogan West — His Last Bow character guide

> Arthur Cadogan West in His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Cadogan West, Young West, young Cadogan West, West, Cadogan

**First appearance:** 0006-the-adventure-of-the-bruce-partington-plans

## Snapshot

A young clerk whose death and missing submarine plans pull Holmes into a case where the obvious suspect may be the one man who cannot have done it.

## Who they are

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 details refuse to fit, and Holmes must decide whether West was a traitor, a dupe, or a victim. His death matters because it forces the story to ask who really benefits when a nobody is blamed, and it sets the early arc's central question of trust inside the Admiralty.

## In the story

### [The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/chapters/the-adventure-of-the-bruce-partington-plans)

The murdered clerk suspected of stealing the plans; his fiancée Miss Westbury provides background.

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