Clue (book Series) - Characters

Characters

With the exception of Mr. Boddy, the six central characters' faces were featured prominently on the back cover of each book, with three randomly selected to appear in an illustration created especially for the cover of each book. Books 1-4 feature the characters as they appeared in the 1986 edition of the board game. From Book 5 onwards, the character redesigns from the 1992 edition were used.

• Mr. Reginald Boddy is a wealthy philanthropist and a painfully trusting host. He collects valuable items while generously forgiving his guests for attempting to commit any crime, including theft, murdering each other and even himself.

• Colonel Martin Mustard is a military man with a short temper who constantly challenges the other guests to a duel (once even challenging himself). He fights an actual duel only once with Mr. Green in the Ballroom.

• Professor Paul Plum is an absent-minded jack-of-all-trades professor who constantly does things like steal something and forget why or create a poison and forget where he left the antidote.

• Mr. Gerald Green is a businessman always interested in making easy money. He, too, has a short temper, often making threats and laughing at others' misfortunes.

• Mrs. Peacock is prim and proper, doing her best to spread social correctness amongst the other guests and scolding them when they're being rude. However, she is willing to kill or steal things to get her way.

• Miss Charlotte Scarlet is a flirtatious young woman who likes to seduce, steal, and murder people for money, revenge, etc.

• Mrs. Wilhemina White is Mr. Boddy's housekeeper and cook who constantly pretends to not take any offense to what someone said, only to immediately turn her back and scowl, thumb her nose, and do things of that nature. She will steal or kill to get herself away from housekeeping, but her plans always fail and she is forced to return as "Mr. Boddy's bitter cook".