Jack Stapleton
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
(Redirected from Rodger Baskerville)
Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
aka Rodger Baskerville (junior) (real name).
aka Mr. Vandeleur (false name before the case).
aka Jack Stapleton (false name during the case).
- Jack Stapleton, of Merripit House, was a naturalist (HOUN 247). He was once a schoolmaster in the North of England (HOUN 2862).
- He was small, slim, clean-shaven, prim-faced man, flaxen-haired and lean-jawed, between thirty and forty years of age, dressed in a grey suit and wearing a straw hat (HOUN 1403).
- He lived with his sister Beryl Stapleton, but she was in reality his wife (HOUN 2843).
- He was in reality Rodger Baskerville, the son of Rodger Baskerville, brother of Sir Charles Baskerville (HOUN 3669).
- He murdered Sir Charles Baskerville (HOUN 3712), and attempted to kill Sir Henry Baskerville using a hound (HOUN 3782), in order to inherit the Baskerville fortune (HOUN 3677).
- He died in the Grimpen Mire — his body was never recovered, and he is presumed swallowed by the bog (HOUN 3633).
