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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