Characters in Elephants Can Remember

Supporting characters

• Hercule Poirot

  Works the puzzle with characteristic patience, relying on order and method rather than fresh physical evidence

  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

• Ariadne Oliver

  Drives the human side of the inquiry by tracking down her elephants, the long-memoried witnesses to the past

  Also in Cards on the Table, Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly, Third Girl, Hallowe'en Party, Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly

• Celia Ravenscroft

  Caught between wanting the truth and being made a condition of her own engagement

• Desmond Burton-Cox

  Anxious to clear the way for the marriage despite his mother's interference

• Mrs Burton-Cox

  Her insistence on the truth carries more behind it than simple maternal concern

• General Alistair Ravenscroft

  His marriage and final months are reconstructed through the recollections of others

• Margaret Ravenscroft

  Remembered for small oddities, including a set of wigs, that take on weight in hindsight

• Superintendent Garroway

  Supplies Poirot with the case details that the inquest could never resolve