# The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes — Character guide

> Key figures in The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

- [Sherlock Holmes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/sherlock_holmes.md): Holmes operates from Baker Street as the last resort for cases too delicate or dangerous for Scotland Yard, and his methods depend as much on reading people as on reading clues. His habit of needling a visitor — noting t
- [Dr. Watson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/dr_watson.md): Watson lives between two worlds: the domestic quiet of his own Queen Anne Street rooms and the charged atmosphere of Baker Street, where he serves as Holmes's trusted sounding board and shield. Clients often hesitate to 
- [Sir Robert Norberton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/sir_robert_norberton.md): Sir Robert belongs to the old squirearchy of Shoscombe Old Place, a man whose fortunes rest on a single race and whose aristocratic bearing conceals a desperate financial squeeze. His secretive behavior — strange errands
- [Count Sylvius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/count_sylvius.md): The Count moves through London society with the ease of a man who has never been refused anything, collecting information and valuables with equal appetite. Sir James Damery warns Holmes plainly that this is a man to who
- [Neil Gibson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/neil_gibson.md): Gibson has risen from nothing to command a fortune in gold, and he carries the habits of the frontier into English drawing rooms: blunt speech, sudden rages, and an impatience with anyone who cannot match his intensity. 
- [Ian Murdoch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/ian_murdoch.md): Murdoch teaches mathematics at a respectable school where his sharp tongue and un-English reserve have earned him few friends among staff or students. When a death occurs on the grounds, his odd habits and his known fric
- [Harold Stackhurst](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/harold_stackhurst.md): Stackhurst runs the coastal school where Holmes's old acquaintance Fitzroy McPherson taught science, and he is the first to find the dying man staggering up from the beach. His brisk, self-possessed manner masks genuine 
- [Robert Ferguson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/ferguson.md): Ferguson is a prosperous, self-made man whose marriage to a much younger woman has begun to curdle into suspicion and silence. When his wife's nocturnal wanderings and strange fixations defy every rational explanation, h
- [Colonel Emsworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/colonel_emsworth.md): Colonel Emsworth presides over a crumbling family estate with the rigid discipline of a man who has spent his life in the army. When his son Godfrey vanishes under impossible circumstances, the colonel's refusal to expla
- [Godfrey Emsworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/godfrey_emsworth.md): Godfrey is a popular, athletic young man whose sudden disappearance during a trip abroad shatters his family and baffles the authorities. When he resurfaces, he is not the same person — pale, secretive, and unwilling to 
- [Josiah Amberley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/josiah_amberley.md): Amberley is a wealthy, solitary man who married a woman twenty years his junior and now finds himself alone, robbed, and humiliated. He comes to Holmes with a tale of adultery and theft, but his manner is so strange — by
- [Trevor Bennett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/trevor_bennett.md): Bennett is the live-in assistant to Professor Presbury, a man he reveres, and the fiancé of the professor's daughter Edith. When Presbury begins behaving with bizarre, almost animalistic intensity, Bennett is the first t
- [James M. Dodd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/james_m_dodd.md): A sun-scorched ex-soldier turned colonial planter who hires Holmes when his closest friend abruptly vanishes behind a locked door.
- [Billy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/billy.md): Holmes's young page boy who assists with errands and messages.
- [Sir James Damery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/sir_james_damery.md): A distinguished client who hires Holmes for a delicate social case.
- [Mrs. Ronder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/mrs_ronder.md): A veiled, wasting lodger who shrieks of murder in the night and sends for Holmes with two words: Abbas Parva.
- [Fitzroy McPherson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/fitzroy_mcpherson.md): A young science master whose dying cry of 'the lion's mane' leaves Holmes with one of his strangest puzzles.
- [Grace Dunbar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/grace_dunbar.md): A governess on trial for her employer's wife's murder, defended by the one man who refuses to believe the evidence.
- [Nathan Garrideb](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/nathan_garrideb.md): A reclusive collector of curiosities lured from his dusty rooms by a stranger's promise of an impossible inheritance.
- [Kitty Winter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/kitty_winter.md): A fierce, wronged young woman who walks into Holmes's flat with a face full of vitriol and a plan for revenge.
- [Baron Gruner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/baron_gruner.md): The Baron moves through society as a collector of beautiful things, and his interest in a certain lady draws Holmes into a case where admiration and menace are impossible to separate. His wealth, his title, and his easy 
- [Lady Beatrice Falder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/lady_beatrice_falder.md): A noblewoman whose past is threatened by Baron Gruner.
- [John Mason](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/john_mason.md): A trainer at Shoscombe Old Place involved in the mystery.
- [Mrs. Merrilow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/mrs_merrilow.md): A landlady who brings the Veiled Lodger case to Holmes.
- [Lord Cantlemere](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/lord_cantlemere.md): A skeptical peer involved in the Mazarin Stone affair.
- [Sam Merton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/sam_merton.md): A boxer and accomplice to Count Sylvius.
- [Douglas Maberley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/douglas_maberley.md): A young man whose death is investigated in the Three Gables case.
- [Professor Presbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/professor_presbury.md): Presbury is a widower of European reputation, combative and exacting, now infatuated with a woman young enough to be his daughter and engaged to be married against his family's quiet disapproval. After a fortnight's unex
- [Jacky Garrideb](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/jacky_garrideb.md): Presenting himself as John Garrideb of Moorville, Kansas, he arrives at Baker Street insisting on a share of a peculiar inheritance tied to the Garrideb name, and he is visibly rattled when Holmes deduces from his coat a
- [Maud Bellamy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/maud_bellamy.md): A young woman involved in the Thor Bridge case.
- [Violet de Merville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/violet_de_merville.md): A young woman under the influence of Baron Gruner.
- [Mrs. Maberley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/mrs_maberley.md): Douglas Maberley's mother, a client in the Three Gables case.
- [General de Merville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/general_de_merville.md): Violet de Merville's father, a retired military officer.
- [Mr. Sutro](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/mr_sutro.md): A man involved in the Three Gables case.
- [Inspector MacKinnon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/inspector_mackinnon.md): A police inspector investigating the Lion's Mane death.
- [Dr. Ray Ernest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/dr_ray_ernest.md): A young doctor who assists in the Creeping Man case.
- [Mrs. Hudson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/mrs_hudson.md): Holmes's landlady at 221B Baker Street.
- [Cheeseman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/characters/cheeseman.md): A servant at Shoscombe Old Place.

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