Alexander Holder

Alexander Arthur Holder is a respectable London banker of middle years whose professional success and social prominence are shadowed by a grave family matter. A man accustomed to managing both wealth and decorum, he finds himself in an unprecedented crisis that threatens his name and reputation. His sense of duty to his family—particularly his daughter Mary Sutherland and his young niece Edith—drives him to seek Sherlock Holmes's aid with utmost urgency and discretion. Though outwardly composed and dignified, he is capable of profound emotional distress when his family's welfare hangs in the balance. His predicament centers on a valuable and sensitive object entrusted to his care by one of his most important clients, and the suspicion that has fallen upon members of his own household as a result of its loss.