Characters in One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Supporting characters

• Hercule Poirot

  Distrusts the suicide verdict from the outset and pursues the inconsistencies others overlook, wrestling with the moral weight of his conclusions.

  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

• Chief Inspector Japp

  Partners with Poirot on the case; this marks his final appearance in the novels.

  Also in The A.B.C. Murders, Murder in the Mews and Other Stories (Dead Man's Mirror / Incredible Theft / Murder in the Mews / Triangle at Rhodes)

• Mr Morley

  His death, first read as suicide, opens the investigation.

• Alistair Blunt

  A reserved financier whose stability is treated as vital to the nation's interests.

• Mr Amberiotis

  Later found dead from an overdose of anaesthetic, deepening the mystery.

• Mabelle Sainsbury Seale

  Her movements and statements prove harder to reconcile than they first appear.

• Howard Raikes

  Present near the dental practice and tied to the wider political undercurrents of the case.

• Jane Olivera

  Her loyalties are pulled between family ties and personal attachment.

• Frank Carter

  His political leanings and a thin motive place him under suspicion.