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Mary Russell is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes mystery series by American author Laurie R. King. She first appears in the novel The Beekeeper's Apprentice . Written over a period of over three decades, King's novels are portrayals of a succession of memoirs written and compiled apparently by an ...
Sherlock Holmes never marries anyone in Arthur Conan Doyle ’s original stories. The only woman whom Holmes ever holds in high regard is Irene Adler—one of few characters to be clever enough to get past him. Though only appearing in Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1891), she has often been portrayed as a potential love interest ...
Sherlock Holmes (/ ˈ ʃ ɜːr l ɒ k ˈ h oʊ m z /) is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.Referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in his stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients ...
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- Mrs Ferguson - the Sussex Vampire. We are never told Mrs Ferguson's name, only that she is foreign, exotic and beautiful. When she is caught seemingly sucking blood from a wound on her baby's neck, everyone's thoughts fly to vampirism.
- Violet Hunter - The Copper Beeches. Violet is an out of work governess who is offered a very unusual job. She is to be governess to a small, and very nasty boy in a house called The Copper Beeches, in the middle of the countryside.
- Annie Harrison - The Naval Treaty. Holmes can immediately tell from Annie's handwriting that she is a woman of rare character with an exceptional nature.
- Unknown Society Woman - Charles Augustus Milverton. This is one of those women who, like Kitty Winter or Sophie Kratides, could be seen as a heroine or a villain depending on your point of view.
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The following is a list and description of the characters of Sherlock, a British television series that started airing on BBC One in July 2010. The series is a contemporary adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and was created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
CharacterPortrayed BySeries(series 1 (2010))Series(series 2 (2012))MainMainMainMainMainMain19 primary works • 31 total works. When a young woman literally stumbles into Sherlock Holmes, a brilliant mystery series begins. It is 1915, and Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees, when he meets fifteen-year-old Mary Russell—gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, with an intellect to impress even Sherlock ...
En route to San Francisco to settle her family’s estate, Mary Russell, in the company of husband Sherlock Holmes, falls prey to troubling dreams—and even more troubling behavior. In 1906, when Mary was six, the city was devastated by a catastrophic earthquake. For years Mary has insisted she lived elsewhere at the time.
