The characters in Sherlock Holmes included: Watson-Holmes 'assistant 2 Moriarty (Riarty)-Holmes 'wife 3 Gauss (Conan Doyle)-Holmes 'friend Pasteur (Sherlock Holmes Conan)-Holmes 'son Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes)-Holmes himself These characters were the main characters in The Complete Sherlock Holmes Mysteries and the core characters in the Sherlock Holmes series.