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A CARIBBEAN MYSTERY
A Miss Marple Mystery
To my old friend
John Cruickshank Rose
with happy memories of my visit to the West Indies
Characters
• Miss Marple: An elderly spinster detective with an eye for detail and
unexpected clues, with a "mind like a sink". She is sent on a Carib-
bean holiday by her nephew.
• Major Palgrave: An elderly, garrulous man with a glass eye who tells
stories from past, some of which stories have photographs or news
clips to illustrate them.
• Tim Kendal: A man in his thirties married to Molly Kendal, who mar-
ries her using false references and starts the hotel with her, using
her money.
• Molly Kendal: Tim's pretty young wife who starts the hotel where the
story takes place with him. She eventually believes she has fallen
mentally ill and confides it to Evelyn, although her symptoms are the
result of being poisoned.
• Jason Rafiel: A cantankerous old man with a large fortune and an unex-
pectedly kind spirit, who takes a shine to Miss Marple.
• Esther Walters: Jason Rafiel's secretary, (the widow of a poor provider)
with a child at school in England.
• Victoria: A St Honoré native who is the one to discover Major Palgrave's
death and the mysterious bottle of Serenite. She has a common-law
marriage with two children and is the second victim to be killed.
• Greg Dyson: A nature lover, who is now married to Lucky, his second
wife.
• Lucky Dyson: An attractive American woman who is married to Greg.
She had plotted to kill his first wife, along with Edward Hillingdon,
whom she tricked into guilt for his actions, and then seduced. She is
the third murder victim.
• Edward Hillingdon: The husband of Evelyn and an avid nature lover.
He has children at a boarding school and has an affair with Lucky.
• Evelyn Hillingdon: A woman who does not love her husband Edward
but stays with him both for their public image and for their children.
• Señora de Caspearo: A South American woman on holiday who opposes
ugliness and, therefore Major Palgrave and Jason Rafiel. She remarks
on Major Palgrave's glass eye as an evil eye.
• Miss Prescott: An elderly woman who enjoys gossiping and has come on
holiday with her brother, Canon Prescott.
• Canon Prescott: Miss Prescott's brother, a member of the clergy, who
dislikes his sister's gossiping.
• Dr Grahame: The St Honoré doctor, slowly retiring from practice, who
treats Miss Marple who pretends to be ill, cares for Molly and con-
firms the deaths of the murdered people.
• Jackson: Mr Rafiel's valet/masseur/attendant who (by admission to Miss
Marple) worked at a cosmetic company.
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