It also emerges that Lady Frances's maid has left her employ, although it is not known why. Only one witness could suggest an explanation, one involving a big, bearded man who kept hounding her. In Switzerland, Watson finds out that Lady Frances stayed at the Hôtel National for several weeks, but then suddenly left in a hurry one day. Her last two bank transactions were cheques, one to pay her hotel bill, and another for £50 to her maid, Miss Marie Devine. She has left the Hôtel National in Lausanne for parts unknown. It is also her habit to write to her old governess, Miss Dobney, every other week, but for the past five weeks, there has not been a word from her. She does, however, carry valuable jewels with her. Lady Frances is a lone, unwed woman denied a rich inheritance on account of her sex.
Watson to Lausanne to investigate Lady Frances Carfax's disappearance since he himself is too busy in London. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom and The American Magazine in the United States in December 1911. It is one of the eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow (1917), and one of the few stories in which for much of the plot Watson must act alone and try his best with Holmes left in the background. " The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 1911 illustration by Alec Ball in The Strand Magazine
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