Characters in Third Girl

Hercule Poirot

Confronts his own age and irrelevance to a generation that dismisses him as too old.

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

Andrew Restarick

Reconnecting with a daughter he barely knows after a long estrangement.

Mary Restarick

Her uneasy place in the household feeds Norma's fears and the family's tensions.

David Baker

A flamboyant, peacock-dressed young man the older generation reads as a fortune-hunter.

Claudia Reece-Holland

Efficient and self-possessed, a foil to Norma's disarray.

Frances Cary

Languid and elusive, with dark hair falling across her face.

Dr Stillingfleet

Blunt and unconventional, he treats Norma's mental state as central to the mystery.

Mr Goby

Never quite makes eye contact; supplies the quiet legwork behind Poirot's deductions.

Also in Elephants Can Remember

Ariadne Oliver

Eccentric detective novelist and Poirot's friend, she sends Norma to him and does much of the active sleuthing.

Also in Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly, Cards on the Table, Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly, Hallowe'en Party, Elephants Can Remember

Norma Restarick

The 'third girl' of a shared London flat, anxious and uncertain, who fears she may have committed a murder.

Sir Roderick Horsfield

Retired wartime intelligence figure writing his memoirs at Long Basing, and the Restarick family's uncle.

Chief Inspector Neele

Poirot's police contact, who investigates the second death as the case turns violent.