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Ian Rutledge
Scotland Yard Inspector before and after World War I. British Army Lieutenant then Captain in France from 1914-1918. Lives in London before and after WW1....
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Cs Bowles
Chief Superintendent at Scotland Yard in London. Born a commoner, he is jealous of Rutledge for his educated background. His protégé is Inspector Mickelson. Bowles suffers a heart attack in The Confession and is replaced by CS Markham...
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Eleanor Gray
Full name: Lady Eleanor Victoria Maude Gray. Daughter of Lady Maude Gray. Eleanor wanted to train as a doctor, but her mother refused. So she left home in Menton in 1916 and disappeared....
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Maude Gray
Mother of Eleanor Gray...
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Fiona Macdonald
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Inspector Oliver
Police inspector in Duncarrick, Scotland, who is overly eager to solve current murder because he failed to solve murder of 5 women in 1912....
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Alistair Mckinstry
young constable in Duncarrick...
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Robson
Chief Constable in Dunncarrick....
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David Trevor
Ians godfather, and a top architect in London. Retired to Scotland after his son died in the war....
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Ross Trevor
David Trevors son; good friend of Ian Rutledge. Enlisted in the Royal Navy as an officer in 1914....
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Morag Gilchrist
Trevors housekeeper and cook in Scotland....
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Alex Holden
Landowner in Duncarrick, Scotland. Married to Madelyn Holden. Trained as a spy and served nearly all 4 years of WW1. Convalesced in England before returning home in spring 1919. Has powerful friends—the fiscal, the Chief Constable, Inspector Oliver, and b...
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Madelyn Holden
Wife of Alex Holden; very weak, allegedly from having caught the Spanish flu one year earlier....
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Ian Macdonald.
Boy Fiona claims is her son, now 3 years old....
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Drummonds
Older bachelor & his spinster sister who live together in their family home in Duncarrick. He used to work for Alex Holden taking care of the shire horses, before they were taken by the Army. Hates sheep, but will do odd jobs for Mrs. Holden. His sister w...
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Mr. Elliott
Scottish minister in Duncarrick who preaches fire & brimstone, wrath & judgment, not love & forgiveness. Singles out Fiona to humiliate her....
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Ealasaid Maccallum
Fionas aunt in Duncarrick who needed help running the inn, The Reivers, when she fell ill....
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Fiscal Burns
“Fiscal”=professional title. Father of Robert Burns....
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Robbie Burns
Army captain who was an attorney before the war; entered the law practice of Burns, Grant, Grant & Fraser in 1912, located in Craigness, Scotland, a small town on the Teith in the Trossachs. Son of Fiscal Burns. Dark hair, charismatic. Killed in France in...
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Mrs. Davison
Married woman in Brae who hired Fiona as a mothers helper, to take care of her three children, a daughter and two sons....
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Mr. Armstrong
Fionas solicitor....
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Sergeant Gibson
Middle-aged sergeant at Scotland Yard in London. Without compare when it comes to ferreting out information. Keeps Rutledge up to date on events at the Yard....
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Grace Atwood
School friend of Eleanor Gray when she was The Honorable Miss Grace Talbot-Hemings. They were also suffragettes together. Lives in Winchester....
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Mrs. Alice Morton
Another school friend of Eleanor Gray; married an American who works at the U.S. Embassy in London....
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Hugh Fraser
Early lifeBorn in London in 1950, but brought up in the Midlands, Fraser studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. As a member of folk band Telltale, Hugh co-wrote and performed the them...
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Thomas Warren
A friend of Robbie Burns who met Eleanor in London. Now a solicitor in Durham, England....
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Mrs. Raeburn
nextdoor neighbor of Robbie Burns in Craigness...