Mystery at Lynden Sands · Character
Peter Hay
The elderly Foxhills caretaker, harmless and friendless by all accounts, whose murder turns a quiet investigation into something far darker.
supporting
Also known as old Peter Hay, old Hay, Hay
First appearance: i the death at foxhills
As a supporting figure in Mystery at Lynden Sands, Peter Hay is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The deceased caretaker; his habits, teetotalism, and tidy nature are described posthumously.
Peter Hay kept the keys to the shuttered Foxhills and, by his own misunderstanding, the silver ornaments he thought valuable enough to move to his cottage. Miss Fordingbridge insists he had not an enemy in the world, which makes his death the case's most disquieting fact. The keys he carried and the trinkets he hoarded become the thread Sir Clinton follows into the empty house.
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See Peter Hay in i the death at foxhills