# Major Pleydell — Perishable Goods character guide

> Major Pleydell in Perishable Goods by Dornford Yates.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Pleydell, Major

**First appearance:** 0001-perishable-goods

## Snapshot

The Pleydell patriarch who takes command when Adèle is abducted and his son is out of action, issuing orders with the calm of a man who expects to be obeyed.

## Who they are

With Captain Pleydell incapacitated and Adèle vanished, Major Pleydell steps into the vacuum and runs the search like a military operation — no discussion with outsiders, no trust in strangers, rooms secured at Villach and cars kept ready at Poganec. He has already received two letters warning him not to proceed, which tells him the enemy is watching and that friends may be as dangerous as foes. His steady authority gives the early chapters their shape: a family under siege, commanded by a man who will not flinch, even as the days pass and no demand for money ever comes.

## Relationships

### [Jonathan Mansel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/perishable_goods_se/characters/jonathan_mansel)

_family_

Major Pleydell is Jonathan's father-in-law, and their relationship is strained by the major's disapproval of Jonathan's dangerous lifestyle and his daughter's unhappiness.

### [Jonathan Mansel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/perishable_goods_se/characters/jonathan_mansel)

_family_

Major Pleydell is Jonathan's father-in-law, and their relationship is strained by the major's disapproval of Jonathan's dangerous lifestyle and his daughter's unhappiness.

### [Jonathan Mansel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/perishable_goods_se/characters/jonathan_mansel)

_family_

Major Pleydell is Jonathan's father-in-law, and their relationship is strained by the major's disapproval of Jonathan's dangerous lifestyle and his daughter's unhappiness.

## In the story

### [II: We Take the Field](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/perishable_goods_se/chapters/ii-we-take-the-field)

Despairs over the lack of a ransom demand for his daughter, Adèle.

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