# Colonel Emsworth — The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes character guide

> Colonel Emsworth in The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0003-the-adventure-of-the-blanched-soldier

## Snapshot

A stern retired colonel whose son's disappearance from a locked room forces him to confront secrets he would rather keep buried.

## Who they are

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 explain the household's oddities makes him seem less a grieving father than a man guarding something. His strained relationship with his son, and his insistence on secrecy, turn a simple missing-person case into a study of shame and loyalty.

## In the story

### [The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_casebook_of_sherlock_holmes_se/chapters/the-adventure-of-the-blanched-soldier)

Godfrey's father, a harsh martinet and Crimean VC, who is hostile to Dodd and evasive about his son's whereabouts.

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