Characters
- Lieutenant Hastings, the narrator, on sick leave from the Western Front
- Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective displaced by the war to England; Hastings' old friend
- Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard
- Emily Inglethorp, mistress of Styles, a wealthy old woman
- Alfred Inglethorp, her much younger new husband, thought to be a spoiled fortune-hunter
- John Cavendish, her elder stepson and remainderman to Styles
- Mary Cavendish, John's wife
- Lawrence Cavendish, John's younger brother
- Evelyn Howard, Mrs. Inglethorp's companion
- Cynthia Murdoch, the beautiful, orphaned daughter of a friend of the family
- Dr. Bauerstein, a suspicious toxicologist
- Dorcas, a maid at Styles
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