Hugo Oberstein

From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
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Fictional character.


In the Sherlock Holmes stories

The Second Stain (1904)

The Bruce Partington-Plans (1908)

aka Pierrot (BRUC 714).

  • Hugo Oberstein, 13, Caulfield Gardens, Kensington, was one of the three only agents/spies worth considering. The two other were Adolph Meyer, of 13, Great George Street, Westminster, and Louis La Rothière, of Campden Mansions, Notting Hill (BRUC 573).
  • He used the alias "Pierrot" to sign message ads in the Daily Telegraph agony-column (BRUC 714).





  1. The first name "Hugo" is not mentioned in this story, only in The Bruce-Partington Plans.