Montpellier is a city located in the Languedoc region on the Mediterranean coast of southern France. The city is home to an old and significant university, founded in 1298.
Canon appearances[]
A Study in Scarlet[]
Sherlock Holmes recounts two former cases that he studied which occurred in Montpellier. He mentions that the first, the Lefèvre case, would have benefitted from a new method of detecting hemoglobin he had developed; the second, the Leturier case, involved the forcible administration of poison, which suggested to Holmes the solution to the Drebber and Stangerson murders.
"The Adventure of the Empty House"[]
Holmes informs to Dr Watson that during his absence from England he spent several months in a Montpellier laboratory doing research on coal-tar derivatives.
"The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax"[]
Watson travels to Montpellier to interview Marie Devine, the maid of Lady Frances Carfax. While speaking with her he notices and confronts a bearded man outside her window: the man attacks him, but Watson is saved by a disguised Holmes. Holmes reveals the man to be Philip Green, a former suitor of Lady Frances who is obsessed with winning her over.