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Death in the dusk

Chapter 4: Persons in this Chronicle
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A visiting antiquarian's journal recounts nine days of escalating mysteries at a rural country house, beginning with an unwelcome clerical intrusion and progressing through uncanny accidents, an enigmatic relic, suspicious deaths, and vanishings. The account tracks investigations, local superstitions, social rivalries among guests, and the influence of a calculating antagonist whose schemes intensify fear and disorder. Narrative episodes shift between methodical inquiry and eerie occurrences, leading to confrontations, revealing disclosures, and a fraught effort to make sense of the calamities that befell the household.

Persons in this Chronicle

The Narrator

Alfred Bannerlee of Balzing in Kent, athlete and antiquarian

Host and Hostess of the Bidding Feast

The Honourable Crofts Pendleton

Mrs. (Alberta) Pendleton

The Betrothed

Sean Cosgrove

Paula Lebetwood

Guests

Herbert Pinckney, Baron Ludlow and Ditherington

Ted Belvoir

Mrs. (Marvel) Belvoir

Gilbert Maryvale, Esq.

Mr. Charlton Oxford

Mrs. Eve Bartholomew

Miss Millicent Mertoun

Dr. Stephen Aire

Lib Dale

Bob Cullen

Servants

Blenkinson, patriarch

Soames, footman

Hughes, gamekeeper

Finlay, head gardener

Wheeler, chauffeur and handy man

Morgan, handy man

Tenney, handy man

Toby, boy

Rosa Clay, cook

Ruth Clay, housekeeper

Ardelia Lacy, lady’s maid

Jael, parlourmaid

Harmony, housemaid

Em, kitchenmaid

Nebulous or Mysterious Persons

The gorilla man

The menagerie keeper

Sir Brooke Mortimer

The sisters Delambre

The red-bearded runner

The youth in the library

The man in the tower

Officials

Superintendent Salt

Dr. Niblett, Coroner

“Scotland Yard”

Super-Sleuth

Harry Heatheringham

Arch-Lord of Disorder

PARSON LOLLY