Characters in Parker Pyne Investigates

Supporting characters

• Mr Parker Pyne

  A large, balding man who spent thirty-five years compiling government statistics and now treats unhappiness as a classifiable, solvable problem; later turns his observant mind to crimes encountered while travelling.

  Also in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories, Problem at Pollensa Bay, Death on the Nile

• Miss Felicity Lemon

  Efficient assistant whose appearance here predates her better-known role as Hercule Poirot's secretary.

• Claude Luttrell

  A handsome, lounge-lizard type employed to play romantic roles in Pyne's engineered dramas.

• Madeleine de Sara

  A glamorous young woman and disguise artist who poses as needed within Pyne's staged remedies.

• Ariadne Oliver

  A novelist who devises scenarios for Pyne's clients, appearing before she becomes a recurring figure in the Poirot novels.