# Lady Frances Carfax — His Last Bow character guide

> Lady Frances Carfax in His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the Lady Frances Carfax, Lady Frances, Frances Carfax

**First appearance:** 0008-the-disappearance-of-lady-frances-carfax

## Snapshot

The last of the Rufton line, she drifts through Europe's grand hotels with her jewels sewn into her clothes and her letters home suddenly stopped.

## Who they are

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 borders on obsession, refusing to leave them with any banker. When her fortnightly letters to her retired governess cease after Lausanne, the silence becomes the case's central mystery.

## Relationships

### [Sherlock Holmes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/sherlock_holmes)

_professional_

Lady Frances Carfax is a missing person whom Holmes is hired to locate and protect.

### [Dr. Watson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/dr_watson)

_professional_

Dr. Watson assists Holmes in the case of Lady Frances Carfax, acting as a protector and investigator.

### [Dr. Watson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/dr_watson)

_professional_

Dr. Watson assists Holmes in the case of Lady Frances Carfax, acting as a protector and investigator.

### [Sherlock Holmes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/sherlock_holmes)

_professional_

Lady Frances Carfax is a missing person whom Holmes is hired to locate and protect.

### [Sherlock Holmes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/characters/sherlock_holmes)

_professional_

Lady Frances Carfax is a missing person whom Holmes is hired to locate and protect.

## In the story

### [The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_last_bow_se/chapters/the-disappearance-of-lady-frances-carfax)

The missing woman, held captive and nearly buried alive by the criminals.

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