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 Chocolate Box, The Kidnapped Prime Minister: a Hercule Poirot Short Story #2, The Lemesurier Inheritance, The Affair at the Victory Ball, The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim, The Plymouth Express: a Hercule Poirot Short Story, The Adventure of the Cheap Flat: a Hercule Poirot Short Story, The Submarine Plans: a Hercule Poirot Short Story, The Adventure of the Clapham Cook: a Hercule Poirot Short Story, The Cornish Mystery: a Hercule Poirot Short Story

• 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.

• Gudgeon