# Joseph Harrison — The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes character guide

> Joseph Harrison in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Joseph, Mr. Joseph Harrison, brother Joseph, Master Joseph, Joseph—the Mr. Harrison

**First appearance:** 0010-the-naval-treaty

## Snapshot

Phelps's brother-in-law, a stout, easy-mannered young man whose casual presence at Briarbrae sits oddly against the wreckage of a stolen treaty.

## Who they are

Joseph drifts through the household at Woking as a familiar, unremarkable figure — the brother of Phelps's fiancée Annie, welcome in the family circle and free to come and go. His ordinariness is precisely what makes him interesting: in a case built on a locked room and a vanished document, the people closest to the victim deserve the hardest look. He represents the domestic intimacy that both comforts Phelps and complicates the investigation, since suspicion and affection cannot easily share a house.

## In the story

### [The Naval Treaty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_memoirs_of_sherlock_holmes_se/chapters/the-naval-treaty)

The brother of Phelps's fiancée, who greets Holmes and Watson at Briarbrae and explains his connection to the family.

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