linnet ridgeway
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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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Simon Doyle
We meet him as Jackie de Belleforts fiancé. She describes him as big and square, incredibly simple and boyish, and utterly adorable. And impoverished.more...
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Rufus Van Aldin
First encountered in The Mystery of the Blue Train. An American millionaire and Ruth Ketterings father.more...
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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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Linnet Ridgeway
A young heiress and millionaire. 20 and beautiful. Daughter of Melhuish Ridgeway and Anna Hartz, and granddaughter of the very wealthy Leopold Hartz. Her maid is Marie and her chambermaid is Louise Bourget. She lives at Wode Hall near London. AKA Linnet D...
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Jacqueline De Bellefort
Jackie is the oldest friend of Linnet. French. They attended school together. Shes fallen hard for Simon Doyle.more...
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Mrs. Allerton
Good looking, 50. Has a son Tim whom she loves. The Allertons are related to Joanna Southwood.more...
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Tim Allerton
Tall and thin. Dark hair. Sad eyes. No real occupation. Lives with his mother. Can be sullen....
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Dr. Carl Bessner
One of the passengers on the Karnak. A well-known physician with offices in Czechoslovakia. German ancestry....
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Jim Fanthorp
A young lawyer with the firm of Carmichael, Grant s the nephew of the senior partner, William Carmichael. They represent Linnet Ridgeway in the UK.more...
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Mr. Ferguson
English. Espouses communist ideas. Attracted to Cornelia Robson....
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Salomè Otterbourne
She and her daughter Rosalie are tourists in Jerusalem. She finds the service at her hotel deplorable. She decides they should try Egypt. Writes romance novels....
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Rosalie Otterbourne
Daughter of the autocratic Mrs. Otterbourne. Rosalie can be difficult to deal with. Tim Allerton calls her sulky....
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Andrew Pennington
Distinguished in appearance. A lawyer in New York whose firm represents Linnet Ridgeway. Friend of her father. His partner is Sterndale Rockford....
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Cornelia Robson
Lives in New York near Central Park with her mother. A big and clumsy girl. Cousin of Marie Van Schuyler....
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Marie Van Schuyler
Lives in New York. Wealthy and unmarried. An older cousin to the Robsons. Her usual travel companion, secretary and nurse is Miss Bowers....
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Joanna Southwood
Shes the Honourable ... Tall and thin. 27. Friend of Linnet. Related to the Allertons.more...