Samuel | Bocock | In charge of the Maxie stables |
Catherine | Bowers | Nurse, guest of the Maxies, in love with Stephen |
Christian | Bowers | Artist, Catherine's father |
Katie | Bowers | Catherine's mother |
Martha | Bultitaft | Housekeeper for the Maxies |
Det. Chief Insp. Adam | Dalgliesh | Scotland Yard officer in charge of the investigation |
Dr. Charles | Epps | Physician |
Dr. Charles | Feltman | Police surgeon |
Felix | Hearne | Friend of Deborah, publishing executive |
Bernard | Hinks | Vicar |
Lionel | Jephson | The Maxies' lawyer |
Sally | Jupp | Unmarried mother, from St. Mary's, hired help at the Maxie's |
Miss | Liddell | Warden of St. Mary's Refuge for Girls |
Supt. | Manning | Local police officer |
Det. Sgt. | Martin | Scotland Yard officer, Dalgliesh's assistant |
Eleanor | Maxie | Owner of Martingale, party hostess |
Simon | Maxie | Eleanor's husband, father of Stephen & Deborah, invalid |
Stephen | Maxie | Mrs. Maxie's son, medical student |
Beatrice | Melling | Deceased, former employee of the Select Book Club, a friend of Sally Jupp when the also worked at the store |
Miss | Molpas | Manager of the Select Book Club |
Miss | Pollack | Assistant to Miss Liddell at St. Mary's |
Sir Reynold | Price | Local landowner |
Mrs. Victor | Proctor | Sally's aunt |
Derek | Pullen | Young man seen outside the night of the murder |
Mrs. | Pullen | Assistant to Miss Liddell at St. Mary's |
Mrs. | Pullen | Derek's mother |
Deborah | Riscoe | Stephen's sister, widow |
Edward | Riscoe | Deborah's husband, died of poliomyelitis |
James | Ritchie | Sally Jupp's husband |
Miss | Titley | Employee of the Select Book Club |
Johnnie | Wilcox | 12-year-old who saw Sally Jupp & a man in the hayloft of Bocock's stable the afternoon of the fete. |
Mr. | Wilson | Owner of the village store |
James | | Sally Jupp's baby |