Charles Augustus Howell

Charles Augustus Howell (1840 – 1890) was an English-Portuguese art dealer who gained notoriety as a blackmailer that later inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's story "".
==Biography==
Howell was a friend and business agent of both John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He was also a friend of Felice Orsini, the failed regicide of Emperor Napoleon III of France, and fallen British Templar John Elliotson.Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 9In 1869, he learned from Rossetti of two notebooks buried with his late wife Elizabeth Siddal. Telling Elliotson, Howell was told to persuade Rossetti to exhume Lizzie's grave to obtain his poetry and the other notebook.Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 10
In 1869, Howell was invited by an acquaintance Anne Blunt for a night-in. There, he arrived and met with her friends Pierrette Arnaud and Evie Frye. Playing whist into the night, he was partnered with Anne and winning with her. Switching partners to Arnaud, he still wins alongside her. However, he soon loses all of his money to Anne, who proposes to give it back for information. Appalled, he intended to leave, only to be stop by Evie's gun. Interrogated, he admitted of his connection to Elliotson and how he hustled his way to retrieve the book, only for it to be taken by an apparition of a lady. Before leaving, he was threatened by Arnaud not to speak of their conversation to anyone.
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot
==References==
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