Characters in The Pale Horse

Supporting characters

• Mark Easterbrook

  Methodical and skeptical, drawn into the case more by intellectual unease than personal stake

• Katherine "Ginger" Corrigan

  Brave and pragmatic, willing to place herself in danger to test the operation

• Ariadne Oliver

  Scattered and self-deprecating, yet her instincts repeatedly prove useful

• Thyrza Grey

  Androgynous and forbidding, she presents the central ritual as genuine occult power

• Sybil Stamfordis

  Theatrical and unnerving, she stages the trances that frame the killings as supernatural

• Bella

  Earthy and provoking, she completes the occult facade with old folk-magic menace

• Zachariah Osborne

  Owlish and eager to be helpful, with a stated fascination for the dark arts

• Father Gorman

  Killed carrying the list of names that sets the investigation in motion

• Mr Venables

  A collector and traveller whose physical condition complicates the case against him

• Detective Inspector Lejeune

  Patient and methodical, working the case in parallel with Mark's private inquiry