Characters
- Hercule Poirot, famous Belgian detective with magnificent moustaches and little "grey cells"
- Colonel Weston, Chief Constable
- Inspector Colgate, investigating officer
- Sergeant Phillips, policeman
- Dr Neasdon, police surgeon
- Captain Kenneth Marshall, in his 40s, Arlena's husband, stiff, proud
- Arlena Stuart Marshall, former actress,Kenneth's wife
- Linda Marshall 16, Kenneth's daughter, Arlena's stepdaughter, naive and precocious
- Patrick Redfern, Christine's husband, infatuated with Arlena
- Christine Redfern, Patrick's wife, pretty "in a washed out way", "mousy"
- Rosamund Darnley, fashionable dressmaker, Kenneth's long-ago sweetheart
- Emily Brewster, athletic spinster, rows daily
- Mrs Carrie Gardener, garrulous American tourist
- Mr Odell Gardener, echoes his wife
- Horace Blatt, large and too loud, avoided by everyone
- Reverend Stephen Lane, in his 50s, calls Arlena Marshall "evil through and through"
- Major Barry, retired officer talks endlessly about India
- Gladys Narracott, chambermaid in the Jolly Roger Hotel
- Mrs Castle, owner of the Jolly Roger Hotel.
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“Waxed-fleshed out-patients
Still vague from accidents,
And characters in long coats
Deep in the litter-baskets
All dodging the toad work
By being stupid or weak.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life—the first twenty years of it—had about them something semi-fictitious.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)