The illustrious client jeremy brett biography

Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle

"The Adventure of the Illustrious Client" (1924) is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of the 12 stories collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927).

It was first published in Collier's in the United States in November 1924, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in two parts, in February and March 1925.

The illustrious client jeremy brett biography

Plot

Sir James Damery comes to see Holmes and Watson about his illustrious client's problem (the client's identity is never revealed to the reader, although Watson finds out at the end of the story; it is heavily implied to be King Edward VII).

General de Merville's young daughter Violet has fallen in love with the roguish and sadistic AustrianBaron Adelbert Gruner, who Damery and Holmes are convinced is a shameless philanderer and a murderer. His victim was his last wife, of whose murder he was acquitted