https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Baron_Adelbert_GrunerBaron Adelbert Gruner - Revision history2026-06-04T04:56:19ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.44.2https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Baron_Adelbert_Gruner&diff=131533&oldid=prevTCDE-Team: Created page with "Baron Adelbert Gruner ([[Collier's, 8 november 1924)]] Fictional character. == In the Sherlock Holmes stories == * Baron Adelbert Gruner was an Austrian baron living in England (at Vernon Lodge, near Kingston), presented as a highly refined, wealthy man with a violent criminal past (ILLU {{refcanon|ILLU|41}}). * Sir James Damery called him "no more dangerous man in Europe" (ILLU {{refcanon|ILLU..."2026-01-08T18:32:19Z<p>Created page with "<a href="/wiki/File:Collier-s-1924-11-08-illu-p6.jpg" title="File:Collier-s-1924-11-08-illu-p6.jpg">thumb|250px|right|Baron Adelbert Gruner ([[Collier's</a>, 8 november 1924)]] Fictional character. == In the Sherlock Holmes stories == * Baron Adelbert Gruner was an Austrian baron living in England (at Vernon Lodge, near Kingston), presented as a highly refined, wealthy man with a violent criminal past (<a href="/wiki/ILLU" class="mw-redirect" title="ILLU">ILLU</a> {{refcanon|ILLU|41}}). * <a href="/index.php?title=Sir_James_Damery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sir James Damery (page does not exist)">Sir James Damery</a> called him "no more dangerous man in Europe" (<a href="/wiki/ILLU" class="mw-redirect" title="ILLU">ILLU</a> {{refcanon|ILLU..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:Collier-s-1924-11-08-illu-p6.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Baron Adelbert Gruner ([[Collier's]], 8 november 1924)]]<br />
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== In the Sherlock Holmes stories ==<br />
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* Baron Adelbert Gruner was an Austrian baron living in England (at Vernon Lodge, near Kingston), presented as a highly refined, wealthy man with a violent criminal past ([[ILLU]] {{refcanon|ILLU|41}}).<br />
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* [[Sir James Damery]] called him "no more dangerous man in Europe" ([[ILLU]] {{refcanon|ILLU|34}}). [[Sherlock Holmes]] immediately identified him as "the Austrian murderer" ([[ILLU]] {{refcanon|ILLU|41}}) and said he was sure Gruner killed his wife at the Splügen Pass ([[ILLU]] {{refcanon|ILLU|49}}).<br />
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* He was "extraordinarily handsome" with "that air of romance and mystery" that gives him power over women ([[ILLU]] {{refcanon|ILLU|84}}).<br />
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* He was cool as ice... silky voiced... and poisonous as a cobra, a real aristocrat of crime ([[ILLU]] {{refcanon|ILLU|172}}).<br />
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* [[Kitty Winter]] said "this man collects women... as some men collect moths or butterflies," keeping a locked book with "Snapshot photographs, names, details" ([[ILLU]] {{refcanon|ILLU|286}}).<br />
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* Gruner was horribly disfigured in an acid attack by [[Kitty Winter]], and [[Sherlock Holmes]] used Gruner's own incriminating book to ensure the marriage to [[Violet de Merville]] was called off ([[ILLU]] {{refcanon|ILLU|613}}).<br />
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