# Murder by the Clock — Character guide

> Key figures in Murder by the Clock by Rufus King.

- [Lieutenant Valcour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/lieutenant_valcour.md): Valcour arrives at the Endicott estate to find a dead man, a forged postscript, and a household of people performing innocence badly. He is methodical rather than theatrical, cataloguing a broken fingernail and a bruise 
- [Mrs. Endicott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/mrs_endicott.md): Mrs. Endicott walks into the investigation already bruised, already lying about small things, and already certain her husband's Latin-eyed mistress is the sort who would kill. She speaks of Herbert with a mixture of cont
- [Thomas Hollander](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/thomas_hollander.md): Hollander is the friend Lieutenant Valcour calls in to sit with the recovering Endicott, a man whose soft accent and easy manner make him seem like comfort itself. But in the sickroom his right hand moves with unnatural 
- [Dr. Worth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/dr_worth.md): Dr. Worth is the kind of doctor Nurse Murrow dreams about — unmarried, distinguished, never snappish — but his eagerness has long since faded into the puffy chains of sleep. He attends Endicott through the night, is asto
- [Herbert Endicott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/herbert_endicott.md): Herbert Endicott is dead before the novel properly begins, but he dominates it through the testimony of everyone who knew him. His wife describes a man who talked elaborately only when lying, who kept weekly impromptu re
- [Roberts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/roberts.md): Roberts is the household employee who knows too much and admits it too late — she fetched her own revolver from a locked trunk during the confusion after the shooting, and by the time she returned it, silence had become 
- [Marge Myles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/marge_myles.md): Marge Myles slips into Endicott's room at seven to rifle his pockets for a letter, and by dawn she is the name on everyone's lips — vanished, possibly hiding in the house, possibly fled into the city. The letter she left
- [Cassidy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/cassidy.md): Cassidy is the junior man Lieutenant Valcour leaves watching over Endicott's room, and when his superior finds him asleep on the chest by the window, the lieutenant envies rather than scolds him. His sheepish 'cat nap' a
- [Mrs. Siddons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/mrs_siddons.md): A character who appears in a scene, possibly a witness.
- [Madame Velasquez](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/madame_velasquez.md): Madame Velasquez receives Lieutenant Valcour with gritty contempt and a grievance: Marge has left her 'in the ditch,' and she means to learn her a lesson. She either knows Marge killed Harry Myles or has convinced Marge 
- [Miss Murrow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/miss_murrow.md): Miss Murrow sits the graveyard shift over the revived Endicott, mentally drafting novels and rehearsing the married name 'Mrs. Sanford Worth' while her attention drifts to Mr. Hollander in the chair. She fancies herself 
- [Officer Hansen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/officer_hansen.md): A police officer assisting in the investigation.
- [Mr. Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/mr_smith.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or visitor.
- [O'Brian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/o_brian.md): A police officer or associate involved in the case.
- [Jane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/jane.md): A woman whose perspective or actions are referenced.
- [Miss Vickers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/miss_vickers.md): A nurse or caregiver at the estate.
- [Andrews](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_by_the_clock_se/characters/andrews.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or police officer.

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