Dr. Leon Sterndale
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- He had a huge body, a craggy and deeply-seamed face with the fierce eyes and hawk-like nose, grizzled hair which nearly brushed our cottage ceiling, the beard — golden at the fringes and white near the lips, save for the nicotine stain from his perpetual cigar — all these were as well known in London as in Africa (DEVI 221).
- For years he loved Brenda Tregennis, and for years she has loved him (DEVI 481), which drove him to kill Mortimer Tregennis with the devil's-foot root fumes (DEVI 535).
