Characters
- Hercule Poirot, famous Belgian detective with magnificent moustaches and little "grey cells"
- Colonel Weston, Chief Constable
- Inspector Colgate, investigating officer
- Sergeant Phillips, policeman
- Dr Neasdon, police surgeon
- Captain Kenneth Marshall, in his 40s, Arlena's husband, stiff, proud
- Arlena Stuart Marshall, former actress,Kenneth's wife
- Linda Marshall 16, Kenneth's daughter, Arlena's stepdaughter, naive and precocious
- Patrick Redfern, Christine's husband, infatuated with Arlena
- Christine Redfern, Patrick's wife, pretty "in a washed out way", "mousy"
- Rosamund Darnley, fashionable dressmaker, Kenneth's long-ago sweetheart
- Emily Brewster, athletic spinster, rows daily
- Mrs Carrie Gardener, garrulous American tourist
- Mr Odell Gardener, echoes his wife
- Horace Blatt, large and too loud, avoided by everyone
- Reverend Stephen Lane, in his 50s, calls Arlena Marshall "evil through and through"
- Major Barry, retired officer talks endlessly about India
- Gladys Narracott, chambermaid in the Jolly Roger Hotel
- Mrs Castle, owner of the Jolly Roger Hotel.
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