A Miss Marple Mystery
Characters
• Miss Marple: Single woman who is getting frail with age, a natural de-
tective. She takes a request from Jason Rafiel, with little initial in-
formation, to solve an unnamed crime for him.
• Jason Rafiel: Millionaire, recently deceased, who first met Miss Marple
in A Caribbean Mystery.
• Michael Rafiel: Son of Jason, still a suspect of murder; Jason considers
his son a ne'er do well.
• Esther Walters: Mr Rafiel's secretary, who first met Miss Marple in A
Caribbean Mystery.
• Verity Hunt: Engaged to Michael Rafiel, but the marriage never hap-
pens, and she was found murdered, identified by Clotilde Bradbury-
Scott several years earlier.
• Miss Elizabeth Temple: Retired headmistress of the school that Verity
Hunt attended, who shares the story of Verity Hunt's engagement
with Miss Marple, as they both take the tour of famous houses and
gardens. She is injured by a rock slide while Miss Marple takes her
day of rest, and dies the next day.
• Miss Cooke: Young woman in the tour group, who Miss Marple recalls
seeing near her home before the tour; later revealed to be sent on the
tour by Jason Rafiel, to aid and protect Miss Marple.
• Miss Barrow: One of the fifteen on the tour with Miss Marple, she ap-
pears with Miss Cooke. She is later revealed to be sent on the tour by
Jason Rafiel to aid and protect Miss Marple, working with Miss Cooke
• Lavinia Glynne: A widow, and one of the three sisters Bradbury-Scott,
who live along the tour route, near the point where the garden to be
toured is a taxing walk for a frail woman; the sisters were contacted
by Jason Rafiel to invite Miss Marple to stay with them until the tour
would move on.
• Clotilde Bradbury-Scott: Unmarried elder sister of Lavinia who became
attached to Verity Hunt, sent to live with them when her parents
died.
• Anthea Bradbury- Scott: Unmarried younger sister of Lavinia and
Clotilde.
• Professor Wanstead: One of the fifteen people on the tour with Miss
Marple, also at Jason Rafiel's invitation. He is a psychiatrist who ex-
amined Michael Rafiel. Wanstead judges Michael as incapable of
murder.
• Archdeacon Brabazon: A friend of Miss Temple who tells Miss Marple
that he had agreed to officiate at the secret marriage of Michael and
Verity. That is an unusual procedure for him, a secret marriage, but
he judged them to be truly in love with each other.
• Joanna Crawford: Young woman on the tour with her aunt.
• Emlyn Price: Young man on the tour.
• Nora Broad: Local girl in the area of the Bradbury-Scott home whose
body is disfigured making identification difficult.