colonel race
He is known for his patience, composure, and ability to detect facts quickly without anyone else noticing. Although rather conventional in his deductive thought processes, he has an exceptionally open mind regarding possibilities and theories, and while he is amazed by some of the deductions Poirot makes, he never doubts nor discounts them, no matter how fantastical.
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Ariadne Oliver
Mrs. Oliver is a famous mystery novelist and a friend of both Hercule Poirot and Parker Pyne. She often assists them in their cases through her knowledge of the criminal mind. She claims to be endowed with particular "feminine intuition", but it usually l...
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Superintendent Battle
The top detective from Scotland Yard who likes to project a professional image of stolidity, with a wooden expression....
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Colonel Race
John Race is a highly intelligent ex-Army Colonel who had a stint as a leader of the counter-intelligence division of the British spy agency MI5. He is immensely rich, having inherited the fortune of Sir Lawrence Eardsley. About 50.He is known for his pat...
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Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot is one of Agatha Christies most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era. Poirots name was derived from two other fictional detectives ...
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Mr. Shaitana
A cruel, globe-trotting art collector who is famous for grand parties where guests are sometimes humiliated. Most people automatically fear him. Tall and thin....
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Mrs. Lorrimer
An arrogant, well-to-do 60-year-old woman and an expert bridge player. She became a widow 20 years ago....
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Dr. Roberts
A very popular and successful doctor who enjoys mystery novels and crime. Cheerful and middle aged....
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Anne Meredith
A very pretty, soft-spoken 25-year-old woman. Medium height with brown curls. At one point she was a companion of a Mrs. Benson in Devonshire....
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Major Despard
A dashing explorer and big-game hunter. Tall and lean....
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Rhoda Dawes
Anne Merediths wealthy friend and flatmate. Lively, direct and polite, and Max Easterbrooks cousinmore...
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Mrs. Luxmore
The tall, handsome widow of Professor Timothy Luxmore. He died under suspicious circumstances, ostensibly of fever, in the Amazon....
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Miss Burgess
Dr. Roberts loyal secretary in his medical office. She has been with him for 7 years. more...
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Elsie Batt
Former parlour maid of Mrs. Craddock....
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Sergeant Oconnor
Extremely handsome and tall, with a way of getting facts from women in police investigations. Nicknamed the Maids Blessing.more...
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Lord Byron (goodreads)
A real person. Born 1788. He died in 1824. A renowned English poet and member of the House of Lords. Wrote Don Juan as well as Childe Harolds Pilgrimage.more...
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The Butler (cards On The Table)
Mr. Shaitanas butler. Efficient and almost invisible.more...
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Mrs. Craddock
Lived in North Audley Street, London. Always finding fault with her husband and maid. Patient of Dr. Roberts....
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Sven Hjerson
The main character in Ariadne Olivers mystery novels. A detective. more...
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Mrs. Eldon
She died mysteriously somewhere in Devonshire. So says her sister....
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Inspector Harper
Harper works at the Combeacre police station....
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Sherlock (goodreads)
A fictitious character. This is a reference to Sherlock Holmes, the famous London private detective created in the 1890s by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
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Mrs. Astwell
The woman who serves as daily maid at the home of Anne Meredith and Rhoda Dawes....
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Stephens (cards On The Table)
A window cleaner with Chelsea Window Cleaners Association.more...