Characters in The Under Dog and Other Stories

Supporting characters

• Hercule Poirot

  Methodical and self-assured, he prizes order and the workings of his 'little grey cells' over physical pursuit

  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

• Captain Hastings

  Earnest and literal, he records the cases and supplies the conventional reading that Poirot overturns

  Also in The A.B.C. Murders, Poirot's Early Cases, Double Sin and Other Stories, The Affair at the Victory Ball

• Inspector Japp

  A practical official investigator who relies on routine police work rather than Poirot's deductive leaps

  Also in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Poirot Investigates, The Big Four, Black Coffee, Lord Edgware Dies, Death in the Clouds, Poirot's Early Cases, The Affair at the Victory Ball