Person
Sherlock Holmes
Also known as Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Holmes, Mr. Holmes.
The celebrated consulting detective of Baker Street, reckoned the foremost practical expert in the science of crime. From a walking-stick left behind by an absent caller he reconstructs the man's age, profession, and habits with offhand brilliance. Exact, ironical, and a little vain, he treats each fresh puzzle as a welcome exercise for his restless mind.
Chapter II. The Curse of the Baskervilles
He listens with detached, sceptical amusement as Mortimer reads the old family manuscript and the newspaper account, dismissing the legend as a tale fit only for a collector of fairy tales.
Chapter III. The Problem
He questions Mortimer minutely about the yew alley, takes the case, and spends a day in spirit over an ordnance map, concluding that Sir Charles did not tiptoe but ran in terror for his life.
Chapter IV. Sir Henry Baskerville
He traces the warning note to a cut-up Times leader and gives chase to Sir Henry's hidden watcher through the streets, only to be outwitted and lose his man.
Chapter V. Three Broken Threads
His test telegrams, the hotel register, and the questioned cabman each snap in turn, until he admits he has been checkmated in London by a foeman worthy of his steel.
Chapter VI. Baskerville Hall
He sees Watson off at Paddington with strict orders to report only bare facts and never to let Sir Henry roam the moor alone.
Chapter VIII. First Report of Dr. Watson
While Watson keeps watch at Baskerville Hall, Holmes stays in London so far as Watson knows, pressing him by letter for exact facts rather than theories.
Chapter XII. Death on the Moor
He is revealed to be the stranger of the moor hut, having worked the case secretly from Dartmoor all along, and tells Watson that Stapleton is the cold-blooded enemy and that Beryl is in truth his wife.
Chapter XIII. Fixing the Nets
He finds Stapleton's living face hidden in the old portrait of Hugo, then lays his trap while pretending to leave for London and summoning Lestrade.
Chapter XIV. The Hound of the Baskervilles
He springs the fog-bound ambush, empties his revolver into the hound, saves Sir Henry, and frees the bound Mrs. Stapleton.
Chapter XV. A Retrospection
By the Baker Street fire he lays out the whole course of Stapleton's scheme, down to the faint white-jessamine scent on the note that first turned his thoughts toward the Stapletons.
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