Characters
- Lord Peter Wimsey
- Mervyn Bunter, his manservant
- The Reverend Theodore Venables, rector of Fenchurch St Paul
- Sir Henry Thorpe, the local squire; his wife Lady Thorpe; their only daughter Hilary
- Superintendent Blundell, a policeman
- Jeff Deacon, once the Thorpes' butler, convicted of a robbery in their house 20 years previously.
- Nobby Cranton, a London jewel-thief and Deacon's accomplice
- Will Thoday, a farmer and bellringer
- Mary Thoday, his wife, originally married to Deacon
- Jim Thoday, Will's brother, a merchant seaman
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“When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.”
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