Mrs. Tangey

Mrs. Tangey (The Strand Magazine, october 1893)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

• Mrs. Tangey was the commissionaire's wife (NAVA 442).

• She was a bad lot, given to drinking (NAVA 446).

• On the night of the theft, she answered Percy Phelps's ring for coffee instead of her husband, explaining she wanted to spare him since he was tired (NAVA 452).

• She was seen hurrying away from the Foreign Office around the time of the theft, which raised police suspicions (NAVA 245).

• Percy Phelps and Inspector Forbes pursued her to her home in Ivy Lane, Brixton, and had her searched at Scotland Yard — but no treaty was found (NAVA 248).

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