Charles McCarthy

From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
The body of Charles McCarthy (The Strand Magazine, october 1891)

Fictional character.


In the Sherlock Holmes stories

  • Charles McCarthy was a British blackmailer who extorted money from John Turner because he knew his past (BOSC 576).
  • John Turner eventually killed him, when McCarthy insisted that his son marries Turner's daughter (BOSC 606).