Raffles Holmes

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Raffles Holmes, the son of Sherlock Holmes, is a fictional character in the 1906 novel "Raffles Holmes and Company" by John Kendrick Bangs. He is described as the son of Sherlock Holmes by Marjorie Raffles, the daughter of gentleman thief A.J. Raffles. Holmes married Marjorie in 1883, according to the Wold Newton timeline, and she died giving birth to Raffles later that year. Raffles became a drug addict after World War One, the "lovely, lost son" referred to in Laurie R. King's Mary Russell novels. In the Wold Newton family, Raffles Holmes is the father of a son, Creighton Holmes, who is featured in the novel "The Adventures of Creighton Holmes," by Ned Hubble. Also, since Raffles couldn't possibly have a daughter old enough to marry at the time when Marjorie was born, and he and Holmes are contemporaries, it has been suggested that Marjorie was actually Raffles' sister.