Wilson Kemp
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- Wilson Kemp was a man of the foulest antecedents (GREE 424). An older associate and partner-in-crime of Harold Latimer (GREE 303).
- He was a small, mean-looking, middle-aged man with rounded shoulders (GREE 156). He spoke in a jerky, nervous fashion, and with some giggling laughs in between (GREE 164). The terror of his face lay in his eyes, however, steel grey, and glistening coldly, with a malignant, inexorable cruelty in their depths (GREE 240). His features were peeky and sallow, and his little, pointed beard was thready and ill-nourished (GREE 237).
- He orchestrated the coercion sessions with Mr. Melas as interpreter; later he tried to murder Mr. Melas and Paul Kratides by filling a locked room with charcoal fumes at The Myrtles, Beckenham (GREE 396).
- He fled Britain with Harold Latimer and Sophy Kratides; months later, two Englishmen traveling with a woman were found stabbed in Buda-Pesth (Budapest). Police thought they killed each other, but Sherlock Holmes suspected Sophy Kratides took revenge (GREE 430).
