Hall Pycroft
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- Hall Pycroft was the client of Sherlock Holmes in The Stockbroker's Clerk affair (STOC 70). He was a well-built, fresh-complexioned young fellow with a frank, honest face and a slight, crisp, yellow moustache (STOC 73).
- He was a City clerk recently laid off from Coxon and Woodhouse, then hired by Mawson & Williams (STOC 86).
- Targeted by the Beddington brothers: the younger (as "Arthur/Harry Pinner") lured him to Birmingham; the elder impersonated him at Mawson's to commit a robbery (STOC 171).
- Pycroft noticed the recruiter's gold-filled tooth and realizes that Arthur and Harry Pinner were the same man in disguise; he fetched Sherlock Holmes, went to Birmingham, and at the end went for the police while Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson guarded Pinner (STOC 265).
