Call Mr. Fortune · Character

Horace Kimball

The rubber king turned President of the Board of Trade, a business man in a business Cabinet, desperate to catch whoever leaked his nationalization scheme.

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Also known as Mr. Kimball, Kimball, the late Kimball, Old Mr. Kimball, young Mr. Kimball, the Rt. Hon. Horace Kimball

First appearance: case i the archduke s tea

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Civil servant implicated in the Coal Ramp; later charged with murder; driven by hatred for his sister's family.

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Kimball is ridiculously rich, reputedly honest, and pathetically anxious that everyone should suppose he has been educated. Only he and his private secretary Sandford knew which companies the primary provisional scheme concerned, and when a Stock Exchange boom follows, Kimball is huffy at any suggestion that Sandford could be the leak. He means to be civil, but he is mad to catch the fellow who gave his scheme away, and he calls Lomas twice a day to say so.

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Mrs. Sandford
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Mrs. Sandford
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Case VI: The Business Minister
Civil servant implicated in the Coal Ramp; later charged with murder; driven by hatred for his sister's family.
Phase I: The Scandal
President of the Board of Trade, a wealthy businessman brought into the government, suspected of leaking the nationalization plan but considered honest by Lomas.
Phase II: The Private Secretary
The Rt. Hon. Horace Kimball, Sandford's chief, is distressed by the betrayal and confronts Sandford about the money.
Phase IV: The Charge
Visits Lomas and Bell, is questioned by Reggie about visiting Mason, and denies knowledge of the murder.
Phase V: The Reply
Reported dead after being thrown into the lake; later revealed to have orchestrated his own death to incriminate Sandford.
Phase VI: Jane Brown
Deceased; his obsessive jealousy and vendetta against Sandford are explored through Jane Brown's account.

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