Miss Marples proxy at Rutherford Hall. Head housekeeper. 32. She had placed first in mathematics at Oxford and was expected to take up a distinguished academic career.more...
Witness to a murder on a passing train. A friend of Miss Marple....
Elderly widower and owner of Rutherford Hall, very selfish with money. He and his wife had 6 children....
Luthers son; a bohemian painter and lover of women. He lives in Ibiza. The eldest son of the three.more...
Luthers son; a cold and stuffy banker.more...
Luthers son; wartime spy and con artist. The black sheep of Luthers six children.more...
Luthers daughter who lives at home with her father and takes care of him. She is single and just under 40.more...
Widower of Edith Crackenthorpe, Luthers daughter, Their son is Alexander Eastley - Luthers only grandchild.more...
Son of Edith and Bryan....
A general practitioner in Brackhampton, Luthers doctor.more...
Scotland Yard Detective-Inspector. he is the godson of Sir Henry Clithering. Craddock had previously featured in A Murder is Announced and The Thirteen Problems....
Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character who is the focal point in 12 Agatha Christie crime novels and 20 short stories. She is an elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur detective. Alongside Hercule Poirot, she ...
Sergeant Cornish is the police officer at the police station in St. Mary Mead....
Luthers oldest son. A pilot, he was killed in WW2. He had written his sister Emma about his plan to marry Martine Dubois. more...
The girlfriend of Edmund Crackenthorpe in France at about the time of the Allied retreat from Dunkirk (1940)....
The housekeeper at Rutherford Hall....
The school boy friend of Alexander Eastley who is staying with him for the holidays at Rutherford Hall. They like to explore. His mother makes a surprise visit to the Hall after Alexander and James have left to return to school....
The former doctor to the Crackenthorpe family; he had retired soon after his junior, Dr. Quimper, joined the practice....
The Crackenthorpe family lawyer in London....
A dancer with a ballet company in Paris....
She is the director of the "Ballet Maritski" in Paris. more...
A police detective with the Paris police. He has met and worked with Detective Inspector Craddock previously....
The first officer on the scene at Rutherford Hall....