Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes was a detective solving some of Britain's most famous cases. He assisted the League during their conflict with Ingsoc.

Semi-Retirement and Faked Death
In May 1891, Holmes confronted his nemesis Prof. James Moriarty at Switzerland's Reichenbach Falls. The two fought in which Holmes emerged as the victor after overthrowing Moriarty, who fell to the falls but survived. Afterward, Holmes faked his death, but not without difficulties from Moriarty's right-hand man Colonel Moran.

Since then, Holmes was officially declared deceased to the known public and has since retired as a bee-keeper living in Fulworth, which only few people knew his fate such as his brother Mycroft Holmes, and more recently Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain.

Final Years & Ingsoc
In 1947, now 93 years old and living at a farmhouse near Sussex, Holmes is visited by Mina Murray in an effort to assist the League on the whereabouts of Big Brother. Holmes declines at first, believing he his far past his prime and too frail. Mina tells Holmes that a man as great as him shouldn't spend his final years living as a bee keeper.

The two travel to London in Oceania and meet up with the rest of the League. Holmes and Allan analyze their gathered evidence surrounding the existence of Big Brother and plot to assassinate him. While Allan and Tom begin to believe that the Big Brother is a propaganda figure head, Holmes believes that Big Brother is, or at least was, Harold Wharton, a World War II British war hero who became increasingly famous and then suddenly disappeared. He then compares Big Brother's face to that of Wharton and find only slim differences. He goes across what used to be Baker Street, but has since been vandalized and worn down. Coming across his old office, he stops and smiles, then suddenly collapses, dying of a heart attack.

Holmes was privately buried by the League back at his farmhouse on the outskirts of Sussex along with a rose left by Mina.