Jean | Burden | Burden's wife. |
John | Burden | Mike's son. |
Mike | Burden | The police inspector. Wexford's colleague. |
Pat | Burden | Mike's son. |
Clare | Clarke | A member of the teaching staff. Margaret's classmate. |
Miss | Clements | One of the lipstick customers. |
Mrs. | Creavey | The farm's cook and caretaker. |
Dr. | Crocker | The post-mortem doctor. |
Mrs. | Darell | One of the lipstick customers. |
Margaret | Dolan | Margaret's former classmate. |
John | Draycott | Mr. Prewett's farm manager. |
Dudley | Drury | Margaret's former boyfriend. |
Kathleen | Drury | Dudley's wife. |
Iris | Drusilla | Margaret's mother. |
Miss | Fowler | The school's headmasters. |
Arthur | Godfrey | Margaret's father. |
Mrs. | Griswold | The chief constable. |
Thomas | Hood | A publisher. Poet and Humorist. |
Anne Mary | Ives | Margaret's cousin. Ethel and Geoffrey's daughter. |
Ethel Mary | Ives | Iris's sister. Margaret's aunt. |
Geoffrey | Ives | Ethel's husband. |
Mrs. | Johnson | Margaret's next-door neighbor. |
Mrs. | Jones | Burden's neighbor. |
Anne | Kelly | Margaret's former classmate. |
Helen | Laird | Margaret's former classmate. |
Dymphna | Missal | Helen's daughter. |
Helen | Missal | One of the lipstick customers. |
Peter | Missal | Helen's husband. |
Priscilla | Missal | Helen's daughter. |
Mrs. | mortlock | The school's secretary. |
Margaret Iris | Parsons | Murdered. Mr. Parsons's wife. Aka: Minna, Meg. |
Ronald | Parsons | Margaret's husband. |
Di | Plunkett | Clare's companion. |
Mr. | Prewett | The owner of the farm where Margaret's body was found. |
Mrs. | Prewett | Mr. Prewett's wife. |
Douglas | Quadrant | A solicitor. Helen's family friend and lover. |
Fabia | Quadrant | Douglas's wife. |
Fabia | Rogers | Margaret's former classmate. |
Mr. | Spellman | Owner of Spellman's nursery. |
Diana | Stevens | Margaret's former classmate. |
Wilburt | Stobart-Katz | Anne's husband. |
Dorothy | Sweeting | Mr. Prewett's land girl. |
Janet | Tipping | The girl at the swan. |
Jimmy | Traynor | Mr. Prewett's pig man. |
Inge | Wolff | Helen's nanny. |
Bryant | | One of Wexford's police. |
Bysouth | | Mr. Prewett's cow man. |
Camb | | The police sergeant. |
Doon | | The mysterious man who wrote letters to Margaret/Minna. |
Edwards | | Draycott's companion. |
Gates | | One of Wexford's police. |
Martin | | One of Wexford's police. |
Wexford | | The chief inspector. Protagonist. |