Lady Mary Brackenstall
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- Lady Mary Brackenstall was the wife of Sir Eustace Brackenstall (ABBE 87). She was formerly Mary Fraser of Adelaide (ABBE 146).
- She was no ordinary person. So graceful a figure, so womanly a presence, and so beautiful a face. She was blonde, golden-hair with blue eyes (ABBE 65).
- She was presented first as a battered, bound victim-witness, she is ultimately revealed (with her devoted maid Theresa Wright) to have helped stage a burglary to protect Jack Croker after he killed Sir Eustace Brackenstall, her violently abusive husband in a fight (ABBE 65, 559).
- Sherlock Holmes did not exposed or pursued her (ABBE 611).
