Inside the story
Meet Godfrey Norton
Godfrey Norton is a handsome young lawyer of the Inner Temple who courts the opera singer Irene Adler. His private relationship with Adler becomes important when Sherlock Holmes is drawn into a case involving her.
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A dashing young barrister in his prime with wavy near-black hair, dark eyes, thick brows and a full dark moustache; fair, faintly ruddy skin. Dressed at the height of 1880s fashion: a tall black silk top hat, a navy tailcoat over a patterned tobacco-brown waistcoat with a gold watch-chain, a crisp white wing-collar shirt and a black silk bow tie.
