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detective

his right hand man is Dr. Watson

tall and skinny

very intelligent

trying to find out the mystery to who killed Sir Charles

patient

very experienced

genius

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sidekick of Holmes'

applies Holmes' techniques

Watson is the eyes and ears of Sherlock

mustache

middle-aged

not very patient

not as big of a genius like Homles

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has big family

dead

killed by a hound

kidnapped a woman and was more then mean

not liked

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dead

died rich

big family

he died because he had a very weak heart

uncle to Sir Henry Baskerville

found footprints by his body

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Sir Charles' friend

made his first appearance leaving his stick at Sherlocks place

tall

thin

dressed sloppy

suspicious

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"Mr. Holmes, we've admired you in the past, as does every Englishman. Your record as our greatest detective is known throughout the world. But this... seeing how you work... knowing that there is in England such a man as you, gives us all a sense of safety and security. God bless you, Mr. Holmes."::::::JAMES MORTIMER BIO:::::::
Dr James Mortimer, M.R.C.S. is a British physician and client of Sherlock Holmes. After working for two years in a junior capacity at Charing Cross Hospital, he married and moved to Dartmoor to set up a country practice, where he made the acquaintance of the Baskerville family of Baskerville Hall. After the mysterious death of his close friend, Sir Charles Baskerville, Dr Mortimer sought out Sherlock Holmes' help in protecting the only remaining heir, Henry Baskerville.
Though a man of science, he somewhat accepts the legend of the hound because of a lack of evidence to the contrary.
Mortimer is of average height and build, is an all-around nice guy and the executor of Charles's estate. Mortimer is also a phrenology enthusiast (he is interested in the study of skulls) , and he wishes and hopes to some day have the opportunity to study Holmes' head.

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Doctor James Mortimer starts out the novel as a figment of Watson's imagination. By looking at Doctor Mortimer's forgotten walking stick, Watson guesses that he is a "successful elderly medical man, well-esteemed", a "country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot", and that he got the walking stick as a present from "the local hunt to whose members he has possibly given some surgical assistance".

Holmes, of course, laughs at him, and points out all of the reasons that we should be able to see Doctor Mortimer for what he really is from his walking stick: "a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favorite dog". When Doctor Mortimer shows up at their door with a curly-haired spaniel, he only confirms Holmes' assessment of his character.

This early scene of deduction goes to show Holmes' brilliance and Watson's, well, less-than-brilliance. It also shows a common mode of characterization in this novel: Holmes' assessment of people is always right. The whole point of Holmes' detecting technique is that he can read people like books.

So Doctor Mortimer comes into the story mainly as a handy plot device to show how brilliant Holmes is. We know that he has this unusual habit of investigating the shapes of skulls to see what they can tell him about different people (and different races, which is the ugly side of his "scientific" practice). But beyond this weird detail of Doctor Mortimer's interest in phrenology and physical anthropology, he's not much of a fully rounded character.

Doctor Mortimer does provide us with lots of important information about the case. He's the one who tells Holmes about the old family legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, and he's the one who brings Sir Henry to meet Holmes before they go down to Baskerville Hall together. Doctor Mortimer also happens to be riding by in his cart just as Watson needs to ask someone about a local woman with the initials "L.L." We also see a flash of his intelligence when he figures out from examining the ashes of the late Sir Charles' cigar that Sir Charles waited for Laura Lyons for about five or ten minutes.

Doctor Mortimer happily fills Watson in on the background of Laura Lyons, who turns out to be key to the case against Stapleton. But when Doctor Mortimer isn't required to give us plot exposition or some comic relief about skulls, he disappears from the narrative.

(There's a very minor linguistic joke going on here, by the way: "Mors" is the personification of Death in Roman mythology, and many Latin medical terms to do with death (rigor mortis, livor mortis, and so on) all use the sound "mort." Doctor Mortimer's name emphasizes his association with dead things-in his case, skulls. Hopefully not his patients.)
"If there's to be danger, then... two guns will be better than one."::::::MORE INFORMATION:::::::
Now, living alone in the Moor and continuing to run his medical practice, Mortimer had to go through the loss of his wife. Previous, she had been baron and unable to have children. So, currently, James is all on his own. The hound had decimated what close friends he had in the Baskervilles. The only companion he currently possesses is his dog, and he is getting up there in age. So, it is only a matter of time before the pooch passes away.

Occasionally, he does see Holmes and Watson, helping them when he can. Watson seems to need his expertise more than Sherlock, but,... assuming Sherlock sees Mortimer as a man in need of friendly companionship, he humors the notion of keeping him around from time to time.

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"Mr. Holmes, we've admired you in the past, as does every Englishman. Your record as our greatest detective is known throughout the world. But this... seeing how you work... knowing that there is in England such a man as you, gives us all a sense of safety and security.

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around 30 years of age

dark eyed

Sir Charles' nephew

hearty

alert of all situations

told not to go out to the moor

from North America

lived in Canada

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a butler

has served the Baskervilles for many years

wants to leave the place

has a wife that works there as well

black bearded man

suspicious because they(Holmes an others) saw a man with a black beard and he has one

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works for the Baskervilles

husband to Mr. Baskerville

wants to leave the estate

older sister of Selden

housekeeper

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prisoner

escaped

sister is Mrs. Barrymore

living on moors

shady man

murderer

people on standing and looking for him by the moor

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not very gentle

loved money

very interested in the Baskerville fortune

little suspicious

people has questioned his relationships

close with Sir Charles

loves butterflies

very beautiful sister

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Dr. Mortimer is very close to the Baskervilles. It would make sense. He knows how much fortune they have. He knows a lot about him. It only makes sense that he would poison them or make them weak. He is Sir Henry's doctor. He has a dog. Sir Charles heart was so weak he could die from the jump of a dog.

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The main mystery is to find out Sir Charles die? They want to know who would try to kill him. They also want to know why Mrs Barrymore was crying and why Mr. Barrymore lied about it. Another is why the man in the carriage lied about his name. Who owns the hound? Who is spying on Sir Henry?

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Mr. Barrymore might be a lead. He lied about Mrs. Barrymore crying in the night. He could of told the truth. I think he is lying.

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Seldon is another. He is shady. He has weird relationships with people that he has lied about. He escaped prison. He roam around in the moor. He also seems interested in the fortunes of the Baskervilles.

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Jack Stapleton's wife

beautiful woman

tall

thin

proud

not married

tells Dr. Watson not to come back

she thinks something's on the moor