Dr. James Gregory

Dr. Gregory stands at the center of the Close affair as the named defendant, a man whose professional reputation and laboratory methods are suddenly the object of Kennedy's scientific suspicion. He insists on the innocence of ordinary error, but the bacteriological angle gives his work a sinister edge that a malpractice suit alone would not explain. His refusal to be merely the careless doctor of Mrs. Close's complaint is what pushes the investigation past gossip and into the realm of deliberate crime.