Characters in Nemesis

Supporting characters

• Miss Jane Marple

  An elderly spinster whose unassuming manner masks a sharp instinct for human wickedness; Rafiel casts her as Nemesis, an agent of justice.

  Also in The Murder at the Vicarage, The Thirteen Problems, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger, A Murder Is Announced, They Do It with Mirrors, A Pocket Full of Rye, 4:50 from Paddington, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, A Caribbean Mystery

• Jason Rafiel

  A blunt, shrewd financier Marple met in the Caribbean; from beyond the grave he arranges her investigation through a posthumous letter and a planned itinerary.

  Also in A Caribbean Mystery

• Clotilde Bradbury-Scott

  Tall, handsome, and educated; she had been a guardian figure to the young woman whose death lies at the heart of the case.

• Lavinia Glynne

  The most conventional and outwardly normal of the three sisters; widowed, she returned to share the family home.

• Anthea Bradbury-Scott

  Vague, scattered, and nervous, with a twitching eyelid and a habit of wandering off as though unsure where she is.

• Verity Hunt

  A girl who died years before the story opens; her fate is the injustice Rafiel wants examined.

• Michael Rafiel

  A young man with a bad reputation who had been involved with Verity; his shadow hangs over the case.

• Professor Wanstead

  A psychiatrist and pathology specialist who proves to be connected to Rafiel's plan and aids Marple's inquiry.

• Miss Cooke and Miss Barrow

  Two women whose presence on the tour and apparent reasons for being there are not quite what they seem.