# Harold Latimer — The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes character guide

> Harold Latimer in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** a Mr. Latimer, Mr. Latimer, Harold, Latimer

**First appearance:** 0009-the-greek-interpreter

## Snapshot

A polished, well-connected schemer who moves through London society with an easy charm, while behind closed doors he runs a far uglier trade in other people's lives.

## Who they are

Latimer belongs to the class of criminal Holmes finds most repellent: educated, socially fluent, and utterly without scruple, using respectability as camouflage. He works with accomplices and treats his victims as assets to be held and bargained over, which makes him a perfect specimen of the organized evil Holmes suspects lies behind so many unsolved cases. His cruelty forces Holmes and Watson into a rescue rather than a mere deduction, and the case becomes a study in how charm can be a weapon.

## In the story

### [The Greek Interpreter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_memoirs_of_sherlock_holmes_se/chapters/the-greek-interpreter)

Young Englishman who kidnaps and tortures Paul Kratides to extort his sister's fortune.

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