| Sherlock Holmes | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main aliases: | The Great Detective | |
| Species: | Human | |
| Job: | Detective | |
| Place of origin: | London, England | |
| Appearances: | The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber, The Feast of Magog | |
| Main actor: | Nicholas Briggs | |
The famous consultant detective, now having been retired for many years and living in Sussex.
Biography[]
Sherlock Holmes was once a famous consultant detective, whose adventures were written down as stories by his flatmate and closest friend Dr. John Watson. He had an older brother named Mycroft, but that is all that is known about his family.
In 1891 he investigated the disappearance of Basil Hallward, briefly making the acquaintance of Dorian Gray, and came to the conclusion that he was murdered, believing that Alan Campbell was to blame. While the police dismissed this belief, his accusations led to Campbell's career falling apart and him taking his own life. Later in his career he came into conflict with Professor James Moriarty, the two having a fateful battle at the Reichenbach Falls that ended with Moriarty's death.
By 1912 he has been retired for several years and has moved to Sussex, where his brother Mycroft would normally visit him for Christmas. However, the death of Lord Henry Wotton meant Mycroft couldn't visit and instead Holmes arranged to have dinner in London. On the day of his return to the city, he's visited by Dorian Gray who tells a fantastical story where he is in fact an immortal kept eternally young by a portrait, which has now been stolen by thieves who want Dorian to murder Sherlock and call him a liar. After some reluctance, Holmes agrees to take the case.
He's eventually visited by a man claiming to be Moriarty, who offers him a deal where in return for his eternal soul, he can live forever in the prime of his life. While tempted, he refuses the offer and rejects the idea of the supernatural in favour of cold hard facts.
Holmes eventually figured out that the thieves were Alan Campbell, who faked his death, and his illegitimate daughter, Gemma Martindale, who had created a plan to get revenge on both Holmes and Gray for their part in ruining Campbell's life. After faking his own death to distract them, both Holmes and Dorian turn them over to the authorities as Holmes had figured out that they had murdered Henry Wotton to get Holmes and Gray to return to London at the same time. Much to his surprise and confusion however, they claim to have never sent anyone pretending to be Moriarty to him. He parts ways with Dorian afterwards, commenting that "there are some things which can't be explained" when Dorian asks whether he believed him to be who he claimed to be, which Dorian notes is neither a yes or a no. (Ghosts of Christmas Past)
It was implied by Mina Harker that Sherlock Holmes was an immortal who made a deal with the Man Upstairs, though this isn't proven to be true. (The Last Confession)
Tobias Matthews implied that there have been several people claiming to be Sherlock Holmes. (The Anniversary)
Trivia[]
- Nicholas Briggs plays Sherlock in a Big Finish audio range, which suggests that the Sherlock Holmes audios are canon with the Confessions audios.
- Briggs also played Sherlock Holmes in a Doctor Who audio where the consulting detective and Dr Watson encounter the Seventh Doctor and Bernice Summerfield. Alexander Vlahos originally portrayed Dorian Gray in a Bernice Summerfield story, with that series being a spin off from Doctor Who.
- Sherlock living in Sussex and being a beekeeper is a reference to A Slight Trick of the Mind and it's film adaptation Mr. Holmes.