Characters in "Unnatural Death"
- Lord Peter Wimsey – protagonist, an aristocratic amateur detective
- Detective-Inspector Charles Parker – Wimsey's friend
- Mervyn Bunter – Wimsey's manservant
- Miss Alexandra Katherine Climpson – a gossipy, harmless-seeming spinster employed by Wimsey to make clandestine enquiries
- Miss Agatha Dawson (deceased) – a rich elderly cancer patient who died suddenly 3 years prior to the novel's action
- Miss Mary Whittaker – Miss Dawson's great-niece and heiress
- Dr Carr – Miss Dawson's doctor
- Miss Vera Findlater – a friend and admirer of Miss Whittaker
- Bertha and Evelyn Gotobed – former servants of Miss Dawson
- Rev Hallelujah Dawson – impoverished West Indian clergyman and distant cousin of Miss Dawson
- Mr Murbles – a solicitor and friend of Wimsey
- Mrs Muriel Forrest – an "expensive irregular and mysterious" lady
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