The Three Hostages - Characters in The Three Hostages

Characters in The Three Hostages

• Richard Hannay, a retired soldier and sometime intelligence man
  • Mary, his wife, also a former intelligence worker
  • Sandy Arbuthnot, a resourceful polyglot friend of Hannay
• Sir Walter Bullivant, a senior man in the intelligence service
  • MacGillivray, Bullivant's right-hand man
• Dr Tom Greenslade, the well-travelled local doctor
• Julius Victor, a very wealthy American banker
  • Adela Victor, his nineteen-year-old daughter
    • The Marquis de la Tour du Pin, Adela's fiance, an old friend of Hannay
• The Duke of Alcester, an elder statesman
  • Lord Mercot, Alcester's grandson, an Oxford undergraduate
• Sir Arthur Warcliff, a national hero
  • David Warcliff, Sir Arthur's ten-year-old son
• Dominick Medina, a charming and gifted politician, poet and celebrity
  • His mother, a blind but impressive old lady
• Dr Newhover, a suspicious medical man
  • Madame Breda, a masseuse used by Newhover
• Kharama, an Eastern mystic
• Herr Gaudian, a German engineer and friend of Hannay