One thing that's a bit challenging about talking about Holmes's character in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is that most of the spadework establishing what he's like is accomplished in the earli...

Poor Watson: he kind of gets the short end of the stick. The fuzzy end of the lollipop. A bum rap. All twelve of these stories are told from his first-person perspective, and yet, when we look back...

Ah yes, "to Sherlock Holmes [Irene Adler] is always the woman" (Bohemia.1.1). Irene Adler only appears in one of Conan Doyle's dozens of stories, but Watson takes care to point out that she remains...

Isa Whitney – Opium addict and one of Watson's friends. Kate Whitney – Wife of Isa, friend of Mrs. Watson. It's on her behalf that Watson visits the opium den where he then finds Holmes...

Henry Baker – An elderly, poor man whose loss of a hat and a goose is what first pulls Holmes into the case of the Blue Carbuncle. James Ryder – Hotel employee and thief.Peterson the Co...

Colonel Lysander Stark – Head of a counterfeiting gang who's also a murderer.Victor Hatherley – Hydraulics engineer whose thumb gives the story its title. Elise – The mysterious G...