Characters in Double Sin and Other Stories

Supporting characters

• Hercule Poirot

  Solves compact problems through observation and order rather than action.

  Also in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murder on the Links, Poirot Investigates, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Big Four, Mystery of the Blue Train, Black Coffee, Peril at End House, Lord Edgware Dies, Murder on the Orient Express

• Captain Hastings

  Records the cases and supplies the conventional reading that Poirot overturns.

  Also in The A.B.C. Murders, The Under Dog and Other Stories, Poirot's Early Cases, The Affair at the Victory Ball

• Miss Marple

  Reads village human nature to reach conclusions others miss.