CurtainAgatha ChristieHercule Poirot, book 39

Characters in Curtain

11 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

Judith Hastings
Hastings's independent grown daughter, working as a research assistant at Styles, whose involvements deeply worry her father.
Stephen Norton
A shy, mild-mannered bird-watching enthusiast whose unassuming surface conceals more than it reveals.
Major Allerton
A charming, womanizing visitor of dubious reputation who attracts attention from the younger women.
Sir William Boyd Carrington
A sociable, charismatic former colonial governor and widower, an old friend of the household.
Dr John Franklin
An idealistic chemist absorbed in research on alkaloids, with ambitions to work in Africa.
Barbara Franklin
Dr Franklin's wife, an invalid of uncertain diagnosis who commands attention from those around her.
Elizabeth Cole
A reserved guest carrying the burden of a family tragedy involving a notorious past killing.
Colonel Toby Luttrell
The aging, henpecked owner who now runs Styles as a guesthouse alongside his sharp-tongued wife.
Captain Arthur Hastings
Also in The Chocolate Box, The Kidnapped Prime Minister: a Hercule Poirot Short Story #2, The Lemesurier Inheritance, The Affair at the Victory Ball, The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim, The Plymouth Express: a Hercule Poirot Short Story, The Adventure of the Cheap Flat: a Hercule Poirot Short Story, The Submarine Plans: a Hercule Poirot Short Story, The Adventure of the Clapham Cook: a Hercule Poirot Short Story, The Cornish Mystery: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
Mrs Allerton
Also in Death on the Nile