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Like so many others, Sherlock Holmes sometimes needs “a little help from him friends.” Find out more about the supporting players in Conan Doyle’s tales. John Hamish Watson Though Dr. Watson narrates almost every one of Conan Doyle’s detective stories, readers rarely get a glimpse into his own life and past. His life seems to begin with his meeting of Sherlock Holmes in 1881 after he returns from a stint as a military doctor in Afghanistan. Watson does state in The Sign of Four that he has no relations in England. But we do know that he had an older brother from whom he inherited a pocket watch. His father is also deceased by 1881, and there is no mention […]
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