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, They Do It with Mirrors, A Pocket Full of Rye, 4:50 from Paddington, At Bertram's Hotel, Sleeping Murder

• 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.

• 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.