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Characters
• Miss Marple: Resident of village of Saint Mary Mead who has much ex-
perience in resolving murders.
• Dolly Bantry: Wife of the Colonel, she is friends with her village neigh-
bour Miss Marple.
• Colonel Arthur Bantry: Retired army man, husband of Dolly, and owner
of extensive lands.
• Colonel Melchett: Chief Constable of Radfordshire, where the first body
is found.
• Inspector Slack: Investigates suspects in both murders and makes an ar-
rest. Despite his last name, he is thorough in his work.
• Dr Haydock: Doctor who performs the post-mortem on the first body,
found in the Bantrys' library.
• Conway Jefferson: Wealthy man staying at the Majestic Hotel with his
son-in-law, daughter-in-law and step-grandson. He lost his legs in an
aeroplane crash, the same crash in which he lost his wife Margaret,
son Frank, and daughter Rosamund some years earlier. He is an old
friend of the Bantrys.
• Mark Gaskell: Widower of Rosamund Jefferson. He is a smooth talking
and handsome man, a gambler by personality. He lives with his
father-in-law in the shared grief after the plane crash, but his father-
in-law never really liked his daughter’s choice.
• Adelaide Jefferson: Widow of Frank Jefferson. She has a son Peter Car-
mody, who is aged 9. Peter was born after the death of her first hus-
band, Mike Carmody. She is a good mother and a reliable woman.
• Edwards: Valet to Conway Jefferson. He agrees to speak with Clithering,
who will share only the needed information with police.
• Ruby Keene: She is the younger cousin of Josie, and a dancer using that
stage name. She was born Rosy Legge. Conway Jefferson takes a
shine to her, going so far as to say he will adopt her and make her his
heir once he alters his will. She was raised poor, and her outward ap-
pearance was like his daughter Rosamund. She was unlike Ros-
amund in personality, as Ruby was a gold-digger.
• Josie Turner: She is the cousin of Ruby, who asked her to come to the
hotel to fill in on the dance floor for her while her ankle heals after
she twisted it. She is shrewd, practical, and wants money.
• Raymond Starr: He was born Thomas Ramon Starr. He works as the
tennis pro and dancer at the Majestic Hotel. He has hopes to woo Ad-
elaide, once she is ready to consider remarriage. He loses out gra-
ciously.
• Sir Henry Clithering: Retired head of Scotland Yard and friend to Miss
Marple. He is called to help in the investigation by his friend Conway
Jefferson.
• Superintendent Harper: From the Glenshire police, where the hotel is
located. He joins the investigation.
• Basil Blake: Young man who recently moved into a cottage just outside
St Mary Mead, and enjoys scorning the older generation. He works
for a movie studio about 30 miles away, and appears at the house
mainly on weekends. Miss Marple knows of his earlier life as
an ARP who saved lives in a burning building, getting injured in the
process. This is the only allusion to the ongoing war.
• Dinah Lee: Woman with platinum blonde hair who appears at Blake’s
home. They are married but tell no one in the village.
• George Bartlett: He was the last dance partner of Ruby. He has a car
parked at the hotel’s open lot, which is stolen and reported missing
the morning after Ruby’s murder. He is a shy man.
• Pamela Reeves: Local girl, age 16 and a Girl Guide. She attended an
event of the Guides the night Ruby was murdered; her parents repor-
ted her missing to the police at 9 pm, hours after she was due home.
The next day she is named as the corpse found in Bartlett’s stolen
and burned car.
• Florence Small: Friend of Pamela Reeves in whom she confided the
story of the screen test at the hotel. Florence gave away her nervous-
ness to Miss Marple, who chose her as the girl to ask what really
happened that evening.
• Hugo McClean: Long time friend of Adelaide who wanted to marry her.
In the end, he did.
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