simon barrington
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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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Constable Hensley
Worked for Bowles in Westminster, sent to the backwater town of Dudlington for reasons unknown, but rumor is he took a bribe to look the other way in an unsolved arson case. Has unhealthy obsession with 17-year-old Emma Mason, and villagers wonder if he k...
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Meredith Channing
Beautiful, poised young woman whom Rutledge meets at a London dinner party. A field nurse in France during the war....
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Emma Mason.
Beautiful 17-year-old girl who disappeared. Daughter of Beatrice Mason, but raised by grandmother Mary Ellison eho told her that her father had died....
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Beatrice Mason
Daughter of Mary Ellison, and mother of Emma Mason, whom she gave to her mother to raise after they were abandoned by husband and father Mason....
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Mary Ellison
Malignant widow who raised granddaughter Emma Mason until she disappeared at age 17. Mother of Beatrice Mason....
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Frank Keating
Owns the inn on the outskirts of Dudlington called The Oaks....
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Grace Letteridge
A single woman in Dudlington, once a friend of Emma Mason and once engaged to marry Robbie Baylor....
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Barbara Melford
Smartly dressed widow in her 30s who provided hot meals for Hensley, so she does the same for Rutledge while he is in town....
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Ci Cain
Oversees oversees 3 hamlets in Northamptonshire: Dudlington, Letherington (largest of the three; north of Dudlington), and Fairfield (east of Dudlington)....
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Rector Towson
Older gentleman crippled with arthritis who has a serious fall at St. Lukes....
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Dr. Middleton
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Mrs. Arundel
Postmistress in Dudlington....
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Ted Baylor
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Robbie Baylor
Native of Dudlington who died in the war at age 20. Was the fiancé of Grace Letteridge. Brother of Ted and Joel Baylor, “son of the late Robert and Ellen Baylor of Dudlington Farm.”...
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Joel Baylor
Half-brother of Ted and Robbie; raised by a grandmother in London until she died. Better at sports and didnt like the country, so he seemed like a stranger to them. Gassed at Ypres and has great difficulty breathing, Suffers from nightmares and can only s...
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Inspector Abbot
Inspector in Leatherington who handled the Beatrice Mason missing person case. God with people but abysmal at record-keeping....
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Hillary Timmons
Works for Keating at The Oaks; temporarily cooking & cleaning for the rector at St. Lukes while he recuperates....
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Mr. Freebold
Greengrocer in Dudlington who rents out the house that Hensley currently occupies....
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Mainwaring
An M.D. at Scotland Yard who is an expert on identifying human bones. Rutledge asks Bowles to send him to Dudlington to look at the discovery in Friths Wood....
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Ci Kelmore
Chief Inspector in Northampton....
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Harry Ellison
Mary Ellisons husband....
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Dr. Eustace
Physician in Hertford whom Rutledge visited for the facial lacerations caused by the windscreen on his automobile being shot out....
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Inspector Smith
Police Inspector in Hertford, who met Rutledge after he gave evidence at a court trial in Hertford....
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Tommy Crowell
Sixteen-year-old boy whom Inspector Smith believes must have shot at Rutledges windscreen as the latter was driving to Hertford....
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Frances Rutledge
Ians sister who lives alone in their parents home in London. Ian lived there too until she turned 25, the age at which their parents stated she would inherit the house....
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Maryanne Browning
Widowed friend of the Rutledges, Talbots and Farnums; lives in London. Her husband Peter died in the flu epidemic....
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Simon Barrington
Vicar at a country church in Sussex, and Maryanne Brownings brother....