Hilton Soames

Hilton Soames opening door (The Strand Magazine, june 1904)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

• Hilton Soames was the tutor and lecturer in Greek at the college of St. Luke's (3STU 7), and one of the examiners of the Fortescue Scholarship (3STU 21).

• He was a tall, spare man, of a nervous and excitable temperament (3STU 8).

• He asked Sherlock Holmes to investigate the problem of the examination papers that have been disturbed on his desk, to check whether there has been any cheating (3STU 69).

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