Jack Ferguson
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- Jack Ferguson (aka "Jacky") was Robert Ferguson's son from his first marriage. The boy was fifteen (SUSS 88).
- He was physically disabled with a weak spine (mentioned Dr. Watson, SUSS 395) or a twisted spine (mentioned his father, SUSS 185) from a fall in childhood.
- Sherlock Holmes identified him as the attacker against his younger baby brother. Holmes said he saw in Jack "such jealousy, such cruel hatred" (SUSS 489) and that "a distorted love, a maniacal exaggerated love for his father, and possibly for his dead mother, which has prompted his action" against the baby (SUSS 492).
