Alexander Holder
A respected London banker who took a national treasure home for the night.
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Hatty Doran
A lively, free-spirited heiress from California, newly married into the English nobility.
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Lord Robert St. Simon
A proud nobleman whose American bride vanished only hours after their wedding.
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Victor Hatherley
A young hydraulic engineer who took a well-paid night job and came back without his thumb.
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Dr Grimesby Roylott
A huge, violent-tempered doctor back from India, who lets wild animals roam his Surrey estate.
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Helen Stoner
A frightened young woman who has just heard the whistle her sister heard on the night she died.
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James Ryder
A pale, nervous hotel attendant whose evidence helped the police in the case of a stolen jewel.
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Henry Baker
A learned, down-on-his-luck gentleman who lost his hat and his Christmas goose in a street scuffle.
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Neville St. Clair
A respectable gentleman from Kent who takes the train into the City every morning.
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John Openshaw
A frightened young man from Horsham who has just received a deadly envelope.
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John Turner
The richest landowner in Boscombe Valley — a grey, gentle old man who rarely speaks of his past.
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James McCarthy
A young man accused of his father's death who will not say what they quarrelled about.
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Inspector Lestrade
A lean, ferret-like Scotland Yard detective who trusts plain facts and doubts Holmes's theories.
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James Windibank
Mary Sutherland's young stepfather, a smooth-talking wine salesman often away in France.
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Mary Sutherland
A kind-hearted typist whose fiancé vanished on the way to their wedding.
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John Clay
A well-born master criminal whom Scotland Yard has chased for years without success.
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Jabez Wilson
A stout, red-haired pawnbroker who has just had the strangest job offer in London.
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The King of Bohemia
A tall, proud king in a mask who needs a detective to save his royal wedding.
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Irene Adler
A famous opera singer with a quick mind, who holds a photograph a king badly wants back.
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Dr John Watson
Former army doctor, loyal friend, and the man who writes down Holmes's cases.
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Sherlock Holmes
London's only consulting detective — he can tell where you've been from the mud on your boots.
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Inspector Newcomen
A brisk, ambitious Scotland Yard inspector who trusts hard evidence.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde · Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sir Danvers Carew
A courteous, white-haired Member of Parliament out for a walk on a moonlit night.
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Mr Guest
Utterson's sharp-eyed head clerk and a keen student of handwriting.
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