Horace Harker

Horace Harker discovering the corpse on his doorstep (Nos Loisirs, 2 january 1910)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

• Horace Harker, a journalist of the Central Press Syndicate, owned one of the six Napoleon busts (bought from Harding Brothers) (SIXN 303).

• He lived 131, Pitt Street, Kensington (SIXN 75).

• The murder victim (Pietro Venucci) was found dead on his doorstep after his house was burgled (SIXN 153).

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