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Justice Lawrence John Wargrave
A retired judge, known as a "hanging judge" for liberally awarding the death penalty in murder cases.more...
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Vera Elizabeth Claythorne
A cool, efficient, resourceful young woman who is on leave from her position as a sports mistress at a third-rate girls school. She has largely worked at secretarial jobs ever since her job as a governess was ended by the death of her charge, Cyril ...
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Philip Lombard
A soldier of fortune. Literally down to his last square meal, he comes to the island with a loaded revolver, as suggested by his invitation letter. Lombard is accused of causing the deaths of a number of East African tribesmen, after stealing their food a...
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General John Gordon Macarthur
A retired World War I war hero, who sent his late wifes lover (a younger officer, Arthur Richmond) to his death by assigning him to a mission where it was practically guaranteed he would not survive.more...
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Dr Edward George Armstrong
A Harley Street doctor, responsible for the death of a patient, Louisa Mary Clees, after he operated on her while drunk many years earlier....
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Anthony James Marston
A handsome but amoral and irresponsible young man, killed two young children (John and Lucy Combes) while driving recklessly, for which he felt no real remorse and accepted no personal responsibility, complaining only that his driving licence had been sus...
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William Henry Blore
A former police inspector and now a private investigator, was accused of falsifying his testimony in court for a bribe from a dangerous criminal gang, which resulted in an innocent man, James Landor, being convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Lan...
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Mr Thomas Rogers
The butler and Ethel Rogers husband. He dominated his weak-willed wife, and they killed their former elderly employer by withholding her medicine, causing the woman to die from heart failure, thus inheriting the money she bequeathed them in her will...
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Mrs Ethel Rogers
The cook/housekeeper and Thomas Rogers wife, described as a pale and ghost-like woman who walks in mortal fear. She was dominated by her bullying husband, who coerced her into agreeing to withhold the medicine of a former employer (Miss Jennifer Bra...
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Emily Caroline Brent
An elderly, religiously rigid, socially respectable spinster who accepted the vacation on Soldier Island largely due to financial constraints. Years earlier, she had dismissed her young maid, Beatrice Taylor, for becoming pregnant out of wedlock. Beatrice...
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Isaac Morris
An unethical lawyer hired by Mr Owen to purchase the island and arranged the invitations on his behalf. Morris was responsible for the addiction and suicide of a young woman through his narcotics activities....
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Fred Narracott
The boatman who delivered the guests to the island....