In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson find themselves investigating a death and possible ancestral curse in the moors of Devonshire. Holmes asks Watson to stay at Baskerville Hall in Devonshire to send regular reports while he returns to London to conduct research. During his stay, Watson meets two people who introduce themselves as brother and sister—Jack and Beryl Stapleton. As it turns out, Jack Stapleton is the estranged cousin of Sir Henry Baskerville, and Stapleton is a false last name. Beryl married him and took this false last name, making Stapleton her fake last name as well. Beryl was originally from South America and of the surname Garcia. Though if Miss Garcia fully believed she was marrying Jack Stapleton—not Jack Baskerville—doesn't that make her a Stapleton just the same?
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