Culverton Smith

Culverton Smith arrested by Inspector Morton (The Strand Magazine, december 1913)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

• Culverton Smith was the planter turned self-taught "expert" in an Asiatic disease from Sumatra who murdered his nephew Victor Savage and attempted to murder Sherlock Holmes using a spring-loaded ivory box that draws infected blood (DYIN 190 212).

• He lived at 13 Lower Burke Street and has a butler, Staples (DYIN 253).

• He bore a grudge against Sherlock Holmes over the Savage case (DYIN 212).

• He tacitly admitted the murder method during his visit at Baker Street (DYIN 444), and was arrested when Inspector Morton arrived (DYIN 485).

• He was small, frail, with a rickety frame and great yellow face, bald head with a smoking-cap (DYIN 268).

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