FIRST NAME |
LAST NAME |
DESCRIPTION |
Mr. | Beresford | Owner of the Ravensward Beacon pub |
Mrs. | Bly | Murder victim, heavy drinker |
Brenda | Boyce | Student at the girls' high school |
Mr. | Boyce | Brenda Boyce's father |
Mr. | Boyce | Brenda's father |
Mrs. | Boyce | Brenda Boyce's mother |
Janice | Dalloway | Sixth-form student at the girls' school |
| Etherege | Literature & philosophy teacher at boys' school,
gossip collector |
Gervase | Fen | Oxford professor of English Language & Literature, guest award presenter at the boys' school |
| Galbraith | Secretary to headmaster Stanford |
| Hargrave | Latin teacher at the boys' school |
Andrew | Love | Classics & history teacher at the boys' school |
Virginia | Love | Wife of teacher at the boys' school |
| Mathieson | English teacher at the boys' school, director of the awards day play |
Mr. | Merrythought | Large bloodhound mix dog; somewhat of a school mascot |
Elspeth | Murdoch | Sixth-form student at the girls' school |
| Pargiton | Teacher at the boys' school |
Miss | Parry | Headmistress of Castrevenford High School for Girls |
Major | Percival | Gymnastics instructor, leader of speech day athletic display |
| Philpotts | Excitable chemistry teacher at the boys' school |
Peter | Plumstead | London clerk on walking tour vacation, discovered dead woman in cottage outside village of Ravensward |
Charlie | Rumbles | Ravensward local, saw Somers leave Mrs. Bly's cottage |
Daphne | Savage | Visitor in Ravensward, assists Peter in calling the police |
Sergeant | Shelley | Police officer aiding the investigation |
| Simblefield | Underachieving student in the lower fifth at the boys' school |
Michael | Somers | English teacher at the boys' school |
Supt. | Stagge | Police superintendent |
Dr. Horace | Stanford | Headmaster of Castrevenford School |
Mr. | Taverner | Ravensward plumber & carpenter |
| Weems | Music master at the boys' school |
| Wells | Porter at the boys' school |
J. H. | Williams | Student in the Modern Sixth at the boys' school |
Lily Christine | | Gervase Fen's car |