# Mr. Gething — Inspector French’s Greatest Case character guide

> Mr. Gething in Inspector French’s Greatest Case by Freeman Wills Crofts.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Gething, old Gething

**First appearance:** 0001-ii-the-firm-of-duke-and-peabody

## Snapshot

Elderly clerk at Duke & Peabody whose death transforms a diamond robbery into a murder case that Inspector French cannot let rest.

## Who they are

Gething was the quiet fixture of the firm's counting-house, a man whose long service made him nearly invisible until the night he was found dead. His killing turns a straightforward theft into something darker and gives the case its name in every newspaper and police report. Though he never speaks in the passages, his absence is the wound around which the whole investigation tightens, and the question of why he died is the question French must eventually answer.

## Relationships

### [Inspector French](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/inspector_french_s_greatest_case_se/characters/inspector_french)

_professional_

Inspector French consults or interrogates Mr. Gething as part of the case.

### [Mr. Duke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/inspector_french_s_greatest_case_se/characters/mr_duke)

_professional_

Mr. Duke and Mr. Gething have a business or professional association, possibly as colleagues.

### [Inspector French](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/inspector_french_s_greatest_case_se/characters/inspector_french)

_professional_

Inspector French consults or interrogates Mr. Gething as part of the case.

### [Mr. Duke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/inspector_french_s_greatest_case_se/characters/mr_duke)

_professional_

Mr. Duke and Mr. Gething have a business or professional association, possibly as colleagues.

### [Inspector French](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/inspector_french_s_greatest_case_se/characters/inspector_french)

_professional_

Inspector French consults or interrogates Mr. Gething as part of the case.

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