Mulatto cook

Arrest of the mulatto cook by the police (The Strand Magazine, october 1908)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

• The mulatto cook was part of Aloysius Garcia's criminal household (WIST 152).

• He performed (or oversaw) ritual "Voodoo" sacrifices in the kitchen (WIST 401).

• He fled with the gang but then risked returning to recover his fetish, which let Constable Baynes's squad to trap him (WIST 479).

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