In "A Scandal in Bohemia" & other early stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave this physician a wife, Mary Morstan
... but in this story, set several years after the first book, Watson appears to 
have... [DOC] [TLE] DOYLE, A.C.: Sherlock Holmes (Complete) (Unabridged) - Naxos [PAR] Of course 'Stamford' is fictitious, and it is to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle we must give 
thanks.