# Murder in the Maze — Character guide

> Key figures in Murder in the Maze by J. J. Connington.

- [Sir Clinton Driffield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_in_the_maze_se/characters/sir_clinton_driffield.md): Sir Clinton Driffield arrives at Whistlefield to untangle two bodies, a burglary, and a houseful of nervous alibis, and he works by clockwork: 3:52, 4:42, 5:16. He soothes Vera Forrest through her account without ever lo
- [Ernest Shandon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_in_the_maze_se/characters/ernest_shandon.md): Ernest Shandon has already been shot at once in the Maze, and he intends to make sure it does not happen again, even if that means letting his nephew call him a coward. He clings to his decanter, mourns his missing cigar
- [Wendover](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_in_the_maze_se/characters/wendover.md): Wendover ferries Sir Clinton about, sits in on the evidence, and refuses to be fobbed off when the detective withholds his conclusions. He builds a tidy theory of the crimes, only to have Sir Clinton gently decline to en
- [Mr. Stenness](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_in_the_maze_se/characters/mr_stenness.md): Stenness moves through the labyrinth without a moment's hesitation, taking the lead with his gun ready while Howard Torrance and the gardener follow. He corners a suspicious stranger, disarms him, and delivers the news t
- [Vera Forrest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_in_the_maze_se/characters/vera_forrest.md): Vera Forrest was sitting under the trees with Sir Clinton before the horror began, and she was inside the Maze when the sounds of running and tiptoeing closed in around her. She gives her evidence honestly, admitting she
- [Arthur Hawkhurst](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_in_the_maze_se/characters/arthur_hawkhurst.md): Arthur Hawkhurst watches Ernest Shandon's display of self-preservation with open contempt and cannot resist the taunt that his uncle has cold feet. When Ernest forbids him to fetch the cigar-case, Arthur goes anyway, hal
- [Roger Shandon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_in_the_maze_se/characters/roger_shandon.md): Roger belongs to the Shandon family circle gathered at Whistlefield, where old grievances and new tensions simmer beneath the surface of country-house civility. He listens to his brothers' sparring with a watchful, unrea
- [Dr. Ardsley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_in_the_maze_se/characters/dr_ardsley.md): Ardsley moves between the Shandon household and the official inquiry, lending medical authority to a case that keeps shifting under everyone's feet. He is not easily impressed by rank or rhetoric, and his unfriendly neut
- [Howard Torrance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_in_the_maze_se/characters/howard_torrance.md): Howard Torrance cannot sit still; he treats idleness as a mortal sin and badgers Vera Forrest into one scheme after another until they settle on racing through the old maze by the boathouse. His boyish competitiveness an
- [Neville Shandon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_in_the_maze_se/characters/neville_shandon.md): Neville Shandon has spent months dismantling the Hackleton defence, and the strain of that work hangs over him even in the quiet of Whistlefield. He regards his brother Ernest with a half-quizzical, half-contemptuous tol
- [Sylvia Hawkhurst](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_in_the_maze_se/characters/sylvia_hawkhurst.md): Sylvia Hawkhurst returns from an afternoon's pleasure to learn that two of her uncles have been murdered, and her shaken but unpretentious response reveals a girl trying to hold her world together. She admits she was nev
- [The Squire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_in_the_maze_se/characters/the_squire.md): The Squire belongs to the small circle of local gentry whose opinions carry weight in the neighborhood, and he is not shy about offering them. He arrives at conclusions quickly and defends them with the assurance of a ma
- [Tim Costock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_in_the_maze_se/characters/tim_costock.md): A local man involved in the investigation.
- [Hackleton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_in_the_maze_se/characters/hackleton.md): An old man who lives near the maze.
- [Skene](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/murder_in_the_maze_se/characters/skene.md): A character mentioned in connection with the case.

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