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Mr. Rand

The elusive Rand keeps a flat he barely uses, wears glasses and long brown hair, and vanishes just when a body falls from a window above him.

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Also known as Rand, the elusive Rand, The elusive Rand, Mason, Rand-Mason

First appearance: case i the archduke s tea

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Mr. Rand is the tenant nobody quite knows, a few weeks in a Montmorency House flat, no visitors, civil but distant, and then gone. When a corpse is found in the well beneath his window, his absence becomes the case's…

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  • Other

Character groups

  • Lunt Family Circle
  • Extended Cast & Clues
  • Protagonist

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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

SetupEscalationClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Closing

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