The Secret of Chimneys - Characters in "The Secret of Chimneys"

Characters in "The Secret of Chimneys"

(Identities assumed by characters in the novel are given in ).

Inhabitants of "Chimneys"

  • Lord Caterham
  • Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent: in the film 2010
  • Virginia Revel (visiting for the weekend)in book; in the film she is youngest daughter of Lord Caterham)
  • (Virginia Revel, daughter of a peer, society beauty and widow of Timothy Revel, a foreign office diplomat)
  • Tredwell, the butler (she appears in the film 2010)

British Government

  • The Honourable George Lomax
  • Bill Eversleigh, of the Foreign Office

Herzoslovakians

  • Prince Michael Obolovitch of Herzoslovakia
  • Captain Andrassy, his equerry.
  • Boris Anchoukoff, his valet
  • Baron Lolopretjzyl, London representative of the Loyalist Party of Herzoslovakia
  • Prince Nicholas Obolovitch of Herzoslovakia
  • An agent of the "Comrades of the Red Hand"

Police and criminal investigators

  • Inspector Badgworthy
  • Dr. Cartwright
  • Constable Johnson
  • Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard
  • Monsieur Lemoine of the Sûreté
  • Professor Wynwood

Others

  • Herman Isaacstein, of an oil syndicate
  • Jimmy McGrath, Canadian gold prospector
  • Giuseppe Manuelli, Italian waiter and an agent of the Herzoslovakian Comrades of the Red Hand
  • Hiram P. Fish (in reality, an American agent on the trail of King Victor)
  • King Victor, international jewel thief
  • Angèle Mory, former dancer at the Folies Bergère, later Queen Varaga of Herzoslovakia

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