Characters in The Hollow

Supporting characters

• Hercule Poirot

  Peripheral to the household, he observes the scene's staged quality and reads the emotions beneath it rather than relying on physical clues.

  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

• Lady Lucy Angkatell

  Charming, vague, and seemingly scatterbrained, her wandering manner conceals an unexpectedly shrewd grasp of the people around her.

• Sir Henry Angkatell

  A retired colonial administrator who grounds his wife's flightiness with steady, conventional decency.

• Dr John Christow

  Magnetic and ambitious, devoted to his research yet careless with the people who love him.

• Gerda Christow

  Timid and self-effacing, she idolises her husband and is treated by the household as slow and unremarkable.

• Henrietta Savernake

  Talented and self-possessed, her art consumes her even amid grief, and her loyalties run deeper than they appear.

• Edward Angkatell

  Gentle and bookish, he has long and unsuccessfully loved Henrietta, proposing more than once.

• Midge Hardcastle

  Down-to-earth and clear-eyed, she quietly loves Edward and feels her poorer-relation status keenly.

• Veronica Cray

  Glamorous and self-centred, she was John's lover years earlier and reappears to unsettle the present.

• David Angkatell

  An awkward, prickly intellectual ill at ease among the older guests.

• Inspector Grange

  Methodical and weary, he builds a logical case around the obvious evidence while Poirot looks past it.