julian farrar
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Michael Starkwedder
an engineer newly arrived in England after working in Abadan, Iran, for an oil company...
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Laura Warwick
the beautiful, unhappy wife of Richard Warwick...
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Richard Warwick
a cruel, hard-drinking former big-game hunter now confined to a wheelchair...
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Sergeant Cadwallader
an absent-minded, poetry-scribbling policeman who assists Inspector Thomas...
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Miss Bennett
the very efficient, loyal secretary...
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Jan Warwick
Richard Warwicks 19-year-old half-brother; he is mentally disabled and quite childlikemore...
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Mrs Warwick
Richard Warwicks mother; she loved him, but shes not blind to his many faultsmore...
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Henry Angell
Richard Warwicks valet and medical attendantmore...
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Inspector Thomas
the clever policeman in charge of the murder inquiry...
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Julian Farrar
a neighbor of the Warwicks and a retired major who is running for Parliament...
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John Macgregor
a Canadian tourist to Norfolk, England, whose son was run over by Richard Warwick two years ago while the latter was drunk and speeding...