Westaway's Agency

Compact professional office in fashionable West End with ledger books and waiting area for governesses.

Westaway's Agency debuts in 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' as a discreet, upscale employment office in London's fashionable West End, specializing in placing governesses and featuring tidy ledger books and a modest waiting area. It serves as the pivotal setting for one of Sherlock Holmes' most memorable cases, where deception unravels family secrets. Though appearing only once in the canon, the agency exemplifies the mundane facades hiding sinister plots that Holmes routinely exposes, with no further evolution in subsequent books.