Characters in 4:50 from Paddington

Supporting characters

• Miss Jane Marple

  Elderly St Mary Mead spinster who deduces the location of a crime from railway timetables and directs the investigation from a distance.

  Also in The Murder at the Vicarage, The Thirteen Problems, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger, They Do It with Mirrors, A Pocket Full of Rye, At Bertram's Hotel, Nemesis, Sleeping Murder

• Elspeth McGillicuddy

  Miss Marple's old friend, whose glimpse of a strangling through a passing train window sets the whole inquiry in motion.

• Lucy Eyelesbarrow

  Oxford-educated professional housekeeper hired into Rutherford Hall to act as Miss Marple's eyes and hands inside the household.

• Luther Crackenthorpe

  Ailing, miserly widower with a life interest in Rutherford Hall, whose tightly held fortune shadows the whole family.

• Emma Crackenthorpe

  The daughter who stays home to keep house and care for her difficult father.

• Cedric Crackenthorpe

  A bohemian painter son living abroad, careless of convention and family expectation.

• Harold Crackenthorpe

  A respectable City financier son whose outward solidity conceals money troubles.

• Alfred Crackenthorpe

  The charming, feckless son with a history of dubious schemes and chronic want of cash.

• Bryan Eastley

  Widower of a Crackenthorpe daughter and a former wartime pilot adrift in peacetime, often at the Hall.

• Dr Quimper

  The local doctor who attends Luther and is closely involved with the household's affairs.

• Inspector Craddock

  Scotland Yard inspector, a connection of Miss Marple's, who pursues the official side of the case.

  Also in A Murder Is Announced