James Desmond

From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia

Fictional character.


In the Sherlock Holmes stories

  • James Desmond was an elderly clergyman in Westmorland (HOUN 983).
  • He was a distant cousin of the Baskervilles and the next heir if the direct line failed; Sherlock Holmes rules him out as a source of the persecution (HOUN 1148).



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