Karakterler

King of Bohemia (Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein)

He is the Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein and King of Bohemia. A nobleman known for his imposing and showy style, he is currently in the midst of a deep crisis due to his past relationship with Irene Adler in Warsaw. He is soon to enter into a conservative royal marriage with the daughter of the King of Scandinavia. If the photograph he had taken with his former lover is revealed, it will be a major catastrophe. Fearing Adler's intellect and stubbornness, he disguises himself to meet Sherlock Holmes in person and offers a massive reward to have the job done. He is a proud but fundamentally selfish character; he explicitly defends social boundaries, stating she was not fit for his rank.

Dr. John H. Watson

He is Sherlock Holmes's closest friend and the chronicler of his adventures. A former army doctor, he served in Afghanistan. Although he left Baker Street for a time due to his marriage, he possesses the loyalty to return to his detective days at a moment's notice or whenever Holmes is in need. With his medical knowledge, he provides academic support to Holmes from time to time. His logic is sound, but he cannot make the extraordinary leaps of deduction that Holmes does. He is a sensible, moral, and reliable English gentleman. The reader learns of all these incredible events through his slightly bewildered yet entirely objective and admiring perspective. His presence balances Holmes's anti-social traits, which often border on sociopathy.

Dr. Grimesby Roylott

The last heir of the noble but decayed family of the old Stoke Moran in Surrey. While working as a doctor in India, he beat his native servant to death and returned to England in a sullen, bitter state. After his wife died, he began living with his stepdaughters in his old mansion. He concocts sinister plans to control a modest annual inheritance and prevent his daughters from marrying, thereby seizing the money entirely. With his terrifying strength and ungovernable temper, he has intimidated everyone in the local town. He allows gypsies to reside on his property and keeps a cheetah and a baboon he brought from India. He uses a very poisonous Indian snake (the Speckled Band) as a weapon that leaves no physical trace, spending his intelligence on these murderous ends to become, as Holmes describes him, a consummate and educated criminal.

Irene Adler

She is 'The Woman' who caused headaches for the King of Bohemia and holds an unforgettable place in the legendary career of Sherlock Holmes. New Jersey-born, former opera singer (contralto) and adventurer. She had a passionate but temporary relationship with the King of Bohemia while performing in Warsaw. When she heard the King was about to marry another noblewoman, she kept the photograph they once took together to take revenge on him or to protect herself. She is extremely intelligent and determined; capable of perceiving all the games of a detective. She even followed Sherlock Holmes to Baker Street in the disguise of a man and cheekily bid him good evening. She leaves the country by marrying the lawyer Godfrey Norton, but leaves behind a brilliant victory that leaves Holmes stunned with respect.

Jabez Wilson

A plain English merchant who comes to Holmes as a client in The Red-Headed League mystery. He runs a small and not very profitable pawnshop in Coburg Square. He has bright flaming red hair and has formerly been a mason and worked as a ship's carpenter. He is a simple, naive man who is not particularly intelligent or shrewd. The mystery begins when he accepts Vincent Spaulding (actually the thief John Clay) to work in his shop for half wages. He applies to join the strange Red-Headed League suggested by Spaulding and is accepted simply due to his hair color. For eight weeks, he is confined to an office copying the Britannica Encyclopedia for a high salary, but when the office suddenly closes, he seeks Holmes's help. It is only through Holmes's resolution that he realizes the underlying event was a massive robbery attempt.

John Clay (Vincent Spaulding)

One of the most ruthless and sophisticated criminals in the stories. It is highlighted that he carries royal blood (being the grandson of a duke) and is a graduate of elite institutions like Eton and Oxford. His aptitude for manual work and superior intelligence have made him a constant and dangerous problem for the London police. In the 'Red-Headed League' adventure, he began working for the ordinary shopkeeper Jabez Wilson for half wages under the guise of 'Vincent Spaulding'. His real target there was to tunnel from the pawnshop's cellar into the bank vault next door without raising suspicion. To keep Jabez Wilson away from the shop for hours at a time, several days a week, he ingeniously invented the 'Red-Headed League' scenario and organized a fraud scheme.

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is the world's first and only 'consulting detective' who solves the complex puzzles of the criminal underworld. Strange and baffling cases that leave the British police or private individuals confounded are his area of expertise. He lives at 221B Baker Street and devotes his days to classifying the nature of crime, conducting scientific experiments, and refining his extraordinary methods of deduction. He approaches emotional attachments, romance, and love with a cold distance, arguing that they cloud his keen logic. During empty periods when he lacks mental stimulation, he tends to fall into bouts of melancholy, leading him toward morphine or cocaine. He often views rules and laws as subordinate to his own sharp sense of justice and morality; he does not hesitate to engage in illicit actions (such as breaking and entering or withholding evidence) to reach the correct conclusion. He often leaves the accolades to the police force, as his true nourishment comes from proving his intellect and attaining the pure knowledge of truth. The only domain where he can resist the banality of the world is the cases he solves.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh on 22 May 1859, into a Catholic family of Irish descent. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was a gifted illustrator who lost his post to drink and illness and spent his last years in asylums. The household was held together by his mother, Mary Foley, whose storytelling fed the boy's imagination. Doyle spent seven years at Jesuit boarding schools in Lancashire and a further year in Austria. In 1876 he began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. As a student he sailed as ship's surgeon on an Arctic whaler and on a steamer bound for West Africa. In 1882 he opened his own practice in Southsea and filled the long hours of waiting for patients with writing. Taking his cue from his surgery teacher Joseph Bell, who read a patient's history at a single glance, he created Sherlock Holmes and published A Study in Scarlet in 1887. His real breakthrough came with the stories that began appearing in The Strand in 1891; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was gathered from them. When the detective started to overshadow him, he killed Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls in 1893, then gave in to his readers and brought him back in The Hound of the Baskervilles. He also wrote historical novels and reached into science fiction with The Lost World; after a pamphlet defending British conduct in the Boer War, he was knighted in 1902. His campaign to clear George Edalji, wrongly convicted, helped bring about a court of criminal appeal in England. With plain, quick prose that trusted the telling detail, he gave detective fiction a lasting form built around reasoning. At the end of the First World War he lost his son and his brother, and devoted his remaining years to spreading spiritualism, a cause he had followed for a long time. He died at his home in Crowborough on 7 July 1930.