# Blue Hand — Character guide

> Key figures in Blue Hand by Edgar Wallace.

- [Digby Groat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/digby_groat.md): Digby Groat moves through London as a man of business — transferring leases, managing his mother's affairs, presenting himself as heir to the Danton millions. But everyone who knew him as a child remembers the same thing
- [Jim Steele](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/jim_steele.md): Jim Steele should be content pushing papers for Septimus Salter, but he can't let go of the Danton case: a missing heiress, a child who may have survived, and a man he openly despises. His war record and easy charm open 
- [Eunice Weldon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/eunice_weldon.md): Eunice Weldon met Jim Steele when she bandaged his burnt hand at the Regent Street studio where she works, and their daily teas have grown into something neither quite names. She is practical, warm, and unimpressed by du
- [Mr. Salter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/mr_salter.md): Mr. Salter runs a modern London practice in the dress of 1850, and he has spent years quietly tracking the Danton disappearance while his clerk Jim Steele chased it openly. He teases Steele with the name Lady Mary Danton
- [Mr. Villa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/mr_villa.md): Villa belongs to the shadowy circle around Digby Groat — Spaniards, pilots, and men with reasons to fear English gaols. His death is discussed on a terrace with the same cool calculation as a flight schedule, and it tell
- [Jane Groat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/jane_groat.md): Jane Groat grew up at Kennett Hall as Danton's daughter, and her old friend Mrs. Weatherwale still keeps the letters from the days she fell in love with a Spanish man. She is now Mrs. Groat, mother of Digby, and her sign
- [Mrs. Groat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/mrs_groat.md): Mrs. Groat holds the purse strings of the Danton estate only until the missing heiress's twenty-year shadow expires, and she resents every shilling spent on the luxury surrounding her. Shuffled into a poorly furnished ba
- [Lady Mary Danton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/lady_mary_danton.md): Lady Mary was the Earl of Plimstock's daughter who married millionaire Jonathan Danton and fled with their infant when the marriage soured, leaving behind a will that tied the estate in knots for twenty years. Salter alo
- [Felix Bronson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/bronson.md): Bronson flies Digby and Eunice out over the water, a working airman caught up in a scheme he does not fully see. When the plane sinks, Digby's cunning strap-work leaves him trapped while the others are hauled aboard the 
- [Jackson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/jackson.md): An innocent character who appears in the narrative.
- [Mary Weatherwale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/mary_weatherwale.md): A woman with a minor but named role in the story.
- [Jonathan Danton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/jonathan_danton.md): Jonathan Danton married the Earl of Plimstock's daughter and made both their lives miserable, his bad heart souring him into harshness toward his wife. Before sailing for America he signed a will leaving his whole fortun
- [Antonio Fuentes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/antonio_fuentes.md): A watchful man who appears in the narrative.
- [Masters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/masters.md): A character with a minor but named presence.
- [Dorothy Danton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/dorothy_danton.md): A member of the Danton family, likely a younger woman.
- [Mr. Bennett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/bennett.md): A character who appears in the story, possibly a professional.
- [Madge Benson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/madge_benson.md): A woman with a minor but named role.
- [Mrs. Fane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/mrs_fane.md): A woman who appears briefly in the story.
- [Xavier Silva](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/xavier_silva.md): A character with a minor presence in the narrative.
- [Mr. Mansar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/blue_hand_se/characters/mr_mansar.md): A deceased man mentioned in the plot.

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