Sir Eustace Brackenstall

Sir Eustace Brackenstall's body (The Strand Magazine, september 1904)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

• Sir Eustace Brackenstall was one of the richest men in Kent (ABBE 59), a baronet (ABBE 312), and husband of Lady Mary Brackenstall (ABBE 87).

• He was a tall, well-made man, about forty years of age (ABBE 165).

• He was a good-hearted man when he was sober, but a perfect devil when he was drunk (ABBE 189). There was a scandal about his drenching a dog with petroleum and setting it on fire (ABBE 192)., and he threw a decanter at that maid Theresa Wright (ABBE 193).

• He was killed in a fight that erupted after he violently assaulted his wife Lady Mary Brackenstall. Jack Croker struck him while defending her and himself (ABBE 560).

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