Characters
- Lord Peter Wimsey – protagonist, nobleman and amateur detective
- Harriet Vane – protagonist, author of detective fiction
- Philip Boyes – Harriet's former lover, now deceased
- Norman Urquhart – Solicitor and Boyes' cousin
- Rosanna Wrayburn, aka "Cremorna Garden" – great-aunt of Boyes and Urqhart, sometime stage performer, now senile and bedridden
- Charles Parker – police detective; Wimsey's future brother-in-law
- Miss Katharine Climpson – spinster and enquiry agent on Wimsey's behalf
- Miss Murchison – typist and employee of Miss Climpson
- Lady Mary Wimsey – Peter's younger sister, engaged to Parker;
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