Sophy Kratides

Paul Kratides and Sophy Kratides (The Strand Magazine, september 1893)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

• Sophy Kratides was a young Greek woman from a wealthy family in Athens (GREE 421).

• She was the sister of Paul Kratides, the Greek gentleman whom Harold Latimer and Wilson Kemp kidnapped, imprisoned, tortured and killed (GREE 425).

• While in England, she fell under the influence of Harold Latimer who had acquired an ascendancy over her (GREE 422), and was effectively kept a prisoner by Harold Latimer and Wilson Kemp (GREE 428).

• She discovered her brother Paul Kratides was the tortured prisoner (GREE 221).

• When Harold Latimer and Wilson Kemp fled Britain, she disappeared with them. The Hungarian police found them in Buda-Pesth (Budapest) all stabbed to death concluding that they had quarrelled and had inflicted mortal injuries upon each other (GREE 431).

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