John Scott Eccles
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- In The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, chapter 1 is titled "The Singular Experience of Mr John Scott Eccles" (WIST 1).
- John Scott Eccles was a stout, tall, grey-whiskered and solemnly respectable person. From his spats to his gold-rimmed spectacles he was a Conservative, a Churchman, a good citizen, orthodox and conventional to the last degree (WIST 30).
- He was a respectable bachelor from Popham House, Lee, whose strange night at Wisteria Lodge launched the case and made him unwittingly Aloysius Garcia's perfect alibi witness (WIST 68).
- He visited Wisteria Lodge, invited by Aloysius Garcia, but when John woke up in the morning, he found that everyone had vanished (WIST 134). While Eccles is talking to Holmes, Inspectors Gregson and Baynes arrive to tell them that Garcia's corpse has been found on a common near Wisteria Lodge, and a letter from Eccles was found on it. So Eccles became a suspect (WIST 226).
