# Dr. Morlandson — The Murders in Praed Street character guide

> Dr. Morlandson in The Murders in Praed Street by John Rhode.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Morlandson, this Dr. Morlandson

**First appearance:** 0003-iii-the-inquest

## Snapshot

A doctor convicted of poisoning a patient with morphia, whose decades-old trial the Professor exhumes as the murders resist every modern explanation.

## Who they are

Morlandson was tried at the Old Bailey for killing a patient with an overdose of morphia, sentenced to Dartmoor, and released on licence in 1920 after fourteen years. He vanished into seclusion to devote himself to chemical research, a bent he had always had. The Professor's seemingly irrelevant pursuit of this forgotten case unsettles Harold, who cannot see how a trial from the century's first decade bears on the deaths in Praed Street.

## Relationships

### [The Black Sailor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_murders_in_praed_street_se/characters/the_black_sailor)

_professional_

Dr. Morlandson examines the Black Sailor, possibly as a medical or forensic subject.

### [The Black Sailor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_murders_in_praed_street_se/characters/the_black_sailor)

_professional_

Dr. Morlandson examines the Black Sailor, possibly as a medical or forensic subject.

### [The Black Sailor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_murders_in_praed_street_se/characters/the_black_sailor)

_professional_

Dr. Morlandson examines the Black Sailor, possibly as a medical or forensic subject.

## In the story

### [XII: A Hypodermic Needle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_murders_in_praed_street_se/chapters/xii-a-hypodermic-needle)

Examines the body, extracts the broken needle, identifies the white incrustation as likely potassium carbonate, and notes similarities to the Colburn case.

### [XIV: The Morlandson Trial](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_murders_in_praed_street_se/chapters/xiv-the-morlandson-trial)

Central figure of the chapter; tried for murder of Lord Whatley, sentenced to twenty years, released after fourteen, and died in a laboratory fire.

### [XVII: The Clay-Pit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_murders_in_praed_street_se/chapters/xvii-the-clay-pit)

Confirmed dead by the landlord's account; his charred bones are buried in the churchyard.

### [XVIII: The Avenger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_murders_in_praed_street_se/chapters/xviii-the-avenger)

Deceased; his desire for vengeance against the jurors who convicted him is the driving force behind the murders.

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