Characters
- Albert Gilbert
He is one of the Gilbert twins. He is described as the quick witted and resourceful of the two. He kills Westerby and commits suicide on learning that his wife has left him.
- Alfred Gilbert
He is the second twin and is killed by Westerby.
- Professor Browne-Smith
He is a professor of Lonsdale college and suffering from a life threatening brain tumour. He was a former Lieutenant and the Gilbert brothers served under him. Like Morse, he is obsessed with grammar and spelling.
- Professor Westerby
Another professor at Lonsdale who dislikes Browne-Smith as he thinks that Smith voted against him in the election for the Master's seat. He used his car to dump the first corpse into the Trupp.
- Master of Lonsdale
While never mentioned by name, he is finally revealed to be of a dubious character. He has voted against Smith and later Westerby thereby voting them out of the race for the Mastership. He is also said to be involved in inappropriate dealing about the results.
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“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 author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of human history.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)