The voices of A Study in Scarlet
10 voices in A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle. Every one is a separate voice, cast to the character as written.
- Narrator — Watson's first-person narration — fresh out of Afghanistan, meeting Holmes for the first time. Enthusiastic, curious, occasionally bewildered.
- Sherlock Holmes — The world's only consulting detective, first encountered by Watson at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Eccentric, electric, intensely logical. Younger here than in later stories.
- Dr. Watson — A wounded army surgeon returned from Afghanistan, new to London and to Holmes. Warm, practical, initially bemused by Holmes's extraordinary methods.
- Inspector Lestrade — Scotland Yard's tenacious if limited inspector. Ferret-like features, confident in orthodox methods, perpetually underestimating Holmes.
- Inspector Gregson — The other Scotland Yard inspector on the case, tallest and best-dressed of the detectives. More pompous than Lestrade and equally convinced of his own cleverness.
- Jefferson Hope — The avenging murderer — an American frontiersman who spent two decades hunting down the men who destroyed the woman he loved. Physically imposing, righteous in his own eyes, dying as he confesses.
- Stamford — Watson's old medical acquaintance who introduces him to Holmes. Cheerful, slightly nervous about the introduction.
- John Ferrier — An American pioneer rescued by Mormon settlers as a dying man, who built a prosperous life in Utah while raising the orphan Lucy as his daughter. Stubborn, fiercely protective, ultimately doomed.
- Lucy Ferrier — John Ferrier's adopted daughter — a beautiful, spirited young American woman who falls in love with Jefferson Hope and is forced into a Mormon marriage instead.
- Brigham Young — The formidable leader of the Mormon settlers, who delivers the ultimatum to John Ferrier. Authoritative, patient, implacable.