The characters / Recurring character
Dan Holmes
Dan Holmes is recorded in 5 distinct stories.
Reveal identity notes · spoilers
Susannah remembers her father Dan Holmes; the later novel identifies him as Odetta Holmes’s father through his business partner and her godfather Moses Carver. Odetta's mother addresses her father as Dan, confirming the established father identity.
Also recorded as Dan.
Stories and supporting passages
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
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… he’d had a few or was feeling good—said, “Tell her about the time those men shot at you when you drove the Ford through the covered bridge, Dan,” and he gave Odetta’s ma such a gray and forbidding look that her ma, always something of a sparrow, had shrunk back in her seat and said no more. Odetta had tried her mother once or twice alone after that night, but to no avail. If she had tried before, …
Odetta's mother addresses her father as Dan, confirming the established father identity.
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
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“Ain’t zackly de way Daddy showed me, but I reckon it comes to de same,” she said after a moment.
Detta/Susannah’s father taught her prime numbers. Drawing explicitly identifies Odetta’s father as Dan and founder of Holmes Dental Industries. Recommend this same named father’s mentioned membership; Daddy is a relationship term, not an added alias.
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
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The older man had heavy cheeks that would be jowls in another five years or so, and lines carving their courses from the sides of his nose down to his chin. “I-want lines,” her father would have called them (and Dan Holmes had had a pretty good set of his own).
Susannah recalls her father Dan Holmes while considering Overholser’s expression.
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
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“A stem...which is to say a man of affairs. He took over her father’s business when sai Holmes died, am I correct?” “Yeah. He was also Suze’s godfather.
Song of Susannah expressly identifies the deceased sai Holmes as Susannah’s father and founder of the business Moses Carver took over. Wolves of the Calla directly names Susannah’s father Dan Holmes, and Dark Tower VII again identifies Dan Holmes as Carver’s business partner and Odetta’s father through the same godfather relationship.
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
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Roland nodded. He knew them, all right, although he had never met Moses Carver, the man in the middle. Dan Holmes’s partner, Odetta Holmes’s godfather. In the picture he looked to be a robust and healthy seventy, but surely by 1986 he had to be closer to eighty. Perhaps eighty-five.
The photograph identifies Moses Carver as Dan Holmes’s partner and Odetta Holmes’s godfather.