“He is an excellent antagonist, cool as ice, silky voiced and soothing as one of your fashionable consultants, and poisonous as a cobra. He has breeding in him—a real aristocrat of crime, with a superficial suggestion of afternoon tea and all the cruelty of the grave behind it. Yes, I am glad to have had my attention called to Baron Adelbert Gruner.”
Adelbert Gruner was the villain in canon story The Adventure of the Illustrious Client.
"Have you ever heard of Baron Gruner?”
“You mean the Austrian murderer?”
Gruner was from Austria, which is officially known as the Republic of Austria.
Adelbert Gruner, Republic of Austria
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