Characters in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories

Supporting characters

• Hercule Poirot

  His methodical reasoning and attention to small inconsistencies drive the majority of the entries, including the chest, the dinner-table death, the recluse, and the shipboard case.

• Miss Marple

  In "Miss Marple Tells a Story" she solves a hotel poisoning largely by retelling it, relying on shrewd reading of people rather than physical investigation.

• Mr Parker Pyne

  The former government statistician approaches the regatta case as another problem to be measured and resolved; the part was written for Poirot in the original magazine version.