Sherlock Holmes villains

[Blofeld]

I'm interested in other evil-doers from the world of Sherlock Holmes beyond Moriarty and his gang for a game I'm planning featuring the great detective, does anyone have any suggestions? Hope this is the right board, could fit into a number. I'll leave it up to the esteemed judgement of the moderator as he's in charge of both boards this could fit into.
Thanks
Blofeld

[Kommando_J]

The Red-Headed League for one, Irene Adler, the last Vampyre, the hound of the Baskervilles.

For 'lesser' enemies look up the crimes of the day, smugglers, extortionists, anarchists and disgruntled ex-servicemen.

[jp1885]

The Master Blackmailer? A chilling performance by Robert Hardy in the TV series back in the day!

[doowopapocalypse]

The Spider Woman was quite good! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spider_Woman

[Vintage Wargaming]

Colonel Moran and his air rifle

[Johnno]

I was saving my 1000th post for something else but that never came....

Charles Augustus Milverton - blackmailer

Henry "Holy" Pete - fraudster

John Woodley - thug

[Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers]

Don't forget at this time there was "The Great Game" a cold war between Great Britain and Russia and I am sure the great detective would be enlisted by the government to thwart some Russian skullduggery.

Cheers
Fuzzg

[Governor General]

The Giant Rat of Sumatra.

[Malamute]

What about the Sign of Four?

The Sign of the Four (1890), is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective.

The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards.It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.

[Brummie Thug]

I'm trying to remember the tale but my google fu is failing me as well. Wasn't there a chap who had a native indian of some kind from a rainforest. I think I recall him using poison darts?

[Blofeld]

After a little research I've tracked down the jewel thief, big game hunter and half-Italian aristocrat Count Negretto Sylvius from the adventure of Mazarin Stone and his boxer second in command Sam Merton. I'm tempted to mix in the American gangster "Killer" Evans from the Three Garridebs as another accomplice of the count along with the usual bunch of thugs and assassins. A while back I wrote a (slightly shoddy) Company list for IHMN based on Charles Augustus Milverton. When I get round to it a revised edition might be in the works. All this talk of a sign of four has given me yet more ideas, where did I put my blowpipe?
Thanks for all the ideas
Blofeld

[Malamute]

I'm trying to remember the tale but my google fu is failing me as well. Wasn't there a chap who had a native indian of some kind from a rainforest. I think I recall him using poison darts?

Yep spot on. Watson shoots him.

[Flashman14]

That's Tonga from Sign of the Four. Jonathan Small is his companion. Holmes is no where near the Mutiny - that just provides the back story for the motive.

In all the stories there aren't many who are evil for evil's sake except for Moriarty. Most of the "criminals" end up having a reasonable justification and the victims are, in quite a few, the actual wrong doer's.

I think the Great Game is a tad early but there is definitely intrigue about preventing a large war in Europe. Remember the canon was written over some 40 years - the mid 1880's (A Study in Scarlet) through the late 1920's (The Casebook ...).

It's probably more fun pitting him against Jack the Ripper or Dracula or some Gothic horror elements even though they have largely no connection to the canon - even the Sussex Vampire is not what it appears.

[THE CID]

Put him up against Fu Manchu, he always returns no matter what.  THE CID.

[The_Beast]

Colonel Moran and his air rifle

Sorry, just saw this, and while I love the model a friend painted up for me, I have to call foul. He was Moriarty's man.

He was the last of the gang that had to fall before he could come out of hiding, at least in the Brett series. Don't think I ever read the story.

Doug