Characters
- Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective
- Captain Arthur Hastings, Poirot's friend and Judith's father
- Curtiss, Poirot's valet
- Dr John Franklin, a research chemist
- Barbara Franklin, his invalided wife
- Judith Hastings, Franklin's laboratory assistant and Captain Hastings' independent daughter
- Nurse Craven, nurse to Barbara Franklin
- Sir William Boyd Carrington, former governor of a province of India
- Major Allerton, a womaniser
- Stephen Norton, a bird watcher
- Colonel Toby Luttrell, owner of Styles Court
- Mrs Daisy Luttrell, his wife
- Elizabeth Cole
- Georges, Poirot's former valet
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