# Herbert Charlecote — Call Mr. Fortune character guide

> Herbert Charlecote in Call Mr. Fortune by H. C. Bailey.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Herbert, Mr. Charlecote, Mr. Herbert Charlecote, Mr. Herbert, old Charlecote

**First appearance:** 0000-case-i-the-archduke-s-tea

## Snapshot

The elegant, obedient nephew of the Charlecote fortune, Herbert is everything his cousin Geoffrey is not—and everything his uncle wanted in a son.

## Who they are

Educated at Harrow and Cambridge, Herbert emerged polished and ordinary, successful in the most pompous drawing-rooms and dutiful in all things. Where Geoffrey scandalized the family by going abroad to be a sculptor, Herbert obeyed. That contrast is the quiet engine of the Charlecote household: the old man's favor, the cousin's resentment, and a family temper inherited from a railway-contractor grandfather who disdained the ten commandments.

## In the story

### [Case IV: The Efficient Assassin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/call_mr_fortune_se/chapters/case-iv-the-efficient-assassin)

The nephew and former heir, who conspired with Dr. Newton to murder his uncle but was ultimately killed by Newton.

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