Mary Cushing

Mary Cushing and Alec Fairbairn, before being killed by Jim Browner (The Strand Magazine, january 1893)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

• Mary Cushing was the sister of Susan Cushing and Sarah Cushing (CARD 207).

• She married Jim Browner at twenty-nine (CARD 387). She had a happy marriage, but her sister Sarah Cushing's interference and Jim Browner's return to drinking strained the relationship (CARD 218).

• She spent time with Alec Fairbairn, a sailor, often at Sarah's lodgings (CARD 420).

• Mary was murdered by her husband Jim Browner in a fit of jealous rage, alongside Alec Fairbairn, while they were out rowing (CARD 466).

• One of her ears was sent in the salt-filled cardboard box (CARD 167).

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