Abe Slaney - Sherlock Holmes Character | OpenFiction
Abe Slaney
ROLEAntagonist
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SPECIESHuman
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GENDERMale
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ORIGINAmerican
An American criminal whose pursuit of a woman from his past brings violence to a quiet Norfolk farm in The Adventure of the Dancing Men. His use of a coded message system based on stick figures dancing - the dancing men of the title - gives Holmes one of his most celebrated cryptographic challenges. Dangerous and entirely without scruple about pursuing what he considers his by prior claim.