Brian Goodeve: literary novice
*James Bayfield: stationer
Gladys Bayfield: his wife
Ernie and Dolly: their children
Edward Seagrave: acquainted with Lucy Prynne
*Charles Underhay: Civil Servant
Betty Underhay: his daughter
Elisabeth Andersch: pianist
*Clare Cranshaw: widow
*Reginald Forth: retired soldier
*Oliver Brackett: auctioneer
Molly Brackett: his wife
Tucker: the Stroods' butler
Mrs Tucker: their cook
*Roger Coates: city clerk
Gertie Coates: his wife
Vincent and Marjorie: their children
A. J. K. Simpson: writer on popular science
*Lionel Bonaker: a friend of Simpson's
Mr Cradock: Strood's partner
*Cyril Gaskin: expectant father
Stella: his sister-in-law
*Blanche Izeley: wife of Paul
Janet Ensworth: acquainted with Blanche Izeley
*Sidney Nywood: builder and undertaker
Flo Nywood: his wife
*Arthur Cheed: garage proprietor
Nellie Cheed: his wife
The Reverend Mr Strood: Roderick Strood's father
Sir John Buckhorn: Attorney-General
Gregory Tufnell: his junior
Leonard Bolton: police officer
Antony Harcombe: a KC
Mr Justice Sarum: presiding
Ernest Nix: detective
Alfred Oscar House: barman
Dr Cartwright: general practitioner
Cyrus Hartman Lampetter: pathologist
Ronald Young: Mr Harcombe's junior
Mrs Henstroke: Roger Coates's mother-in-law
Sarah: servant to Strood senior
*Member of the jury
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