Characters in "The Seven Dials Mystery"
- Jimmy Thesiger, man about town
- Tredwell, the butler at Chimneys
- Sir Oswald Coote, self-made millionaire
- Maria, Lady Coote, his wife
- MacDonald, Head Gardener at Chimneys
- Rupert Bateman, Sir Oswald’s secretary. Was at school with Jimmy Thesiger.
- Helen, Nancy and Vera “Socks” Daventry – members of the Cootes’ house party at Chimneys
- Bill Eversleigh of the Foreign Office
- Ronny Devereux
- Gerald Wade
- Loraine Wade, his step-sister
- Marquess of Caterham
- Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent, his daughter
- Stevens, Jimmy’s manservant
- Superintendent Battle
- Alfred, former footman from Chimneys
- Bauer, his replacement
- George Lomax, Under-secretary for State for Foreign Affairs
- Sir Stanley Digby, air minister
- Terence O’Rourke
- Countess Radzky, revealed later as the actress Babe St. Maur
- Herr Eberhard, German inventor
- Mr Mosgorovsky, owner of the Seven Dials gambling club
- Count Andras and Hayward Phelps, members of the Seven Dials
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