Eduardo Lucas
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
aka Henri Fournaye (SECO 337).
- Eduardo Lucas was one of the best amateur tenors in the country (SECO 188). He lived in Godolphin Street. Unmarried man, thirty-four years of age, and his establishment consisted of Mrs. Pringle, an elderly housekeeper, and of John Mitton, his valet (SECO 189).
- He was a keen student of international politics, an indefatigable gossip, a remarkable linguist, and an untiring letter-writer. He had been on intimate terms with the leading politicians of several countries (SECO 208).
- Henri Fournaye and Eduardo Lucas were one and the same person, and he had for some reason lived a double life in London and Paris (SECO 337).
- He blackmailed Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope and forced her to steal the State paper from her husband's dispatch-box and deliver it to him (SECO 617).
- He was stabbed to the heart in his (Godolphin Street) room with a curved Indian dagger snatched from a wall trophy — death was instantaneous. The scene and later testimony pointed to a jealous woman (his Paris wife, Mme Fournaye) as the attacker (SECO 199).
