Murphy
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional characters.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
The Crooked Man (1893)
- See Major Murphy.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901)
- Murphy was a gipsy horse-dealer. When he was on the moor at no great distance of Baskerville Hall he heard a cry when Sir Charles Baskerville died (HOUN 265).
The Valley of Fear (1914)
- Murphy was an acquaintance of John McMurdo who gave him the address of the Shafter household in Chicago (VALL 2152).
