| 1 | Ophelia | De Luce | Flavia's sister. AKA: Feely. |
| | Daphne | De Luce | Flavia's sister. AKA: Daffy. |
| | Flavia | De Luce | Protagonist and Narrator. |
| | Harriet | De Luce | Flavia's mother. Deceased. |
| | Antony | De Luce | One of Flavia's ancestors. |
| | William | De Luce | One of Flavia's ancestors. |
| | Tarquin | De Luce | Flavia's chemist uncle. |
| | Frank | Buckland | The great naturalist. |
| | Mrs. | Mullet | De Luce's cook. |
| 2 | Laurence | De Luce | Flavia's father. A colonel. AKA: Jacko. |
| | Dogger | | Jacko's factotum. AKA: Arthur Wellesley Dogger. |
| | Ned | Cropper | The odd-job boys at the Thirteen Drakes. |
| | Alf | Mullet | Mrs. Mullet's husband. |
| 3 | Linnet | | The constable. |
| | Hewitt | | The inspector. |
| | Woolmer | | Detective sergeant. |
| | Graves | | Detective sergeant. |
| | Grenville | Twining | Jacko's former housemaster. AKA: Old Cuppa. |
| | Dr. | Darby | A forensic pathologist. |
| 5 | Lord | Margate | The sole purveyor of Beef Chips. |
| | Miss | Pickery | The librarian. |
| | Mary | Stoker | The innkeeper's daughter. |
| | Tully | Stoker | Mary's father. The innkeeper. |
| | Roger | | Miss Pickery's cat. |
| | Hetty | | Miss Pickery's sister. |
| | Tilda | Mountjoy | The Bishop's Lacey library in chief. Mr. Kissing's niece. |
| | Issac | Kissing | Headmaster at Greyminster. |
| | Toby | Lonsdale | One of Jacko's former schoolmates. |
| | Timothy | Greene | One of Jacko's former schoolmates. |
| 6 | Gladys | | Flavia's bicycle. |
| | Margaret | | Alf's sister. |
| 7 | Mr. | Sanders | The only inn's guest. The corpse in Flavia's garden. Aka: Horace Bonepenny |
| 8 | Frank | Pemberton | The writer that Flavia met. |
| 9 | Miss | Bewdley | The garden owner. |
| 10 | Mr. | Denning | The organist. |
| 11 | Miss | Cool | The woman from confectionary. |
| | Richard | Mead | The author of the poison book. |
| | Geordie | | Miss Cool's collie. |
| 13 | Maximilian | Brock | One of De Luce's Buckshaw neighbors. |
| | Ernie | | The bus driver. |
| | Glossop | | A constable. |
| 15 | Carnforth | | The notorious Hinley butcher. |
| | Bob | Stanley | Bony's new associate. |
| 16 | Joshua Butter | Bacon | The firm's senior partner. |
| | Edward | Oxford | The boy who shot Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. |
| | Jacob | Tingle | The firm's apprentice pressman. |
| | Melville | Brown | The postmaster. |
| | Ringer | | Dr. Kissing's
grandfather. |
| 17 | Edward | 7th | Queen Victoria's son. |
| | George | 5th | Edward 7th's son. |
| | Simpkins | | Jacko's former classmate. |
| | Jumbo | Higginson | Jacko's old army buddy. |
| 18 | Mr. | Ruggles | The man at the tower. |
| 21 | Cleaver | | The innkeeper at The Jolly Coachman. |
| 22 | Canon | Blake-Soames | Rector of St. Tancred's. |
| | Mrs. | Fairweather | Chairman of the Ladies Altar Guild. |
| 23 | Quarington | | Pemberton's publisher. |
| 24 | Ernie | Forbes | The man who lost his legs and arms in the war. |
