Characters in Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly

Supporting characters

• Hercule Poirot

  Methodical and observant, he treats the staged game as seriously as the real crime once it surfaces.

  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, Assassinato no Expresso do Oriente

• Ariadne Oliver

  Her writer's intuition that the game is being tampered with proves the engine of the plot.

  Also in Cards on the Table, Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly, Third Girl, Hallowe'en Party, Elephants Can Remember

• Sir George Stubbs

  An expansive, self-made-seeming landowner whose newcomer status to the county invites quiet scrutiny.

  Also in Dead Man's Folly

• Lady Hattie Stubbs

  Vague and childlike in manner, she draws both pity and suspicion from those around her.

  Also in Dead Man's Folly

• Marlene Tucker

  A nosy, sensation-seeking teenager whose role in the make-believe murder turns fatally real.

  Also in Dead Man's Folly

• Mrs Folliat

  A composed keeper of local memory whose knowledge of the place runs deeper than she lets on.

• Inspector Bland

  A steady, conventional investigator who works the case alongside Poirot.

  Also in Dead Man's Folly