How Conan Doyle presents Athelney Jones, and how the character develops across the text: the confident official detective whose wrong arrests Holmes undoes, and who still takes the credit.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'Stern facts here—no room for theories', 'You see that I am weaving my web round Thaddeus', 'Don't promise too much, Mr. Theorist', 'the brusque and masterful professor of common sense', 'His expression was downcast, and his bearing meek and even apologetic', 'my professional credit is at stake', 'Your friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes is a wonderful man', 'If we are pretty quick in catching our men, we are not so quick in condemning them', 'a connoisseur of crime'.
Jones as a comic foil to Holmes: the official police, the newspaper report that praises him, and the credit he takes at the end.
