# Poirot Investigates — Character guide

> Key figures in Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie.

- [Hercule Poirot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/hercule_poirot.md): Poirot is the retired policeman whose little grey cells have made him a society fad, complete with a mocking notice in Society Gossip and a stream of fashionable clients at his door. Laid low by influenza, he still orche
- [Captain Hastings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/captain_hastings.md): Hastings is Poirot's partner and narrator, a man who sees a glamorous woman trailed by strangers and instantly invents a crime drama. He trusts beautiful women, leaps at the chance to carry a revolver, and is repeatedly 
- [Inspector Japp](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/inspector_japp.md): Japp is the professional policeman whose cases keep colliding with Poirot's amateur genius, and he knows better than to resent it. He brings the weight of the Yard but yields the final word to the little Belgian, a worki
- [Miss Mary Marvell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/miss_mary_marvell.md): Mary Marvell arrives in England with her actor husband Gregory Rolf to a reception bordering on hysteria, her furs and jewels the talk of the town. She is followed through the streets by a bevy of admirers she is perfect
- [Lady Yardly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/lady_yardly.md): Lady Yardly belongs to the world of titles and country houses that the Western Star case cuts across, her diamond set against Mary Marvell's in a contest of possession and prestige. She is caught between the discretion h
- [Lord Yardly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/lord_yardly.md): The current Lord Yardly, husband of Lady Yardly.
- [Mr. Philip Ridgeway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/mr_philip_ridgeway.md): Ridgeway is the respectable, conscientious bank official through whom a fortune in negotiable bonds passes, a man whose whole career rests on being trusted. When the bonds vanish, his professional world and his personal 
- [Mr. Davenheim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/mr_davenheim.md): Davenheim keeps The Cedars, a palatial country place at Chingside, and his habits are so regular that his disappearance reads like a hole cut out of the day itself. He tells his wife he is walking to the village to post 
- [Mrs. Davenheim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/mrs_davenheim.md): The wife of the missing banker Mr. Davenheim.
- [Count Foscatini](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/count_foscatini.md): Foscatini lives quietly in London attended by his manservant Graves, and his affairs are orderly enough that his pocketbook holds the address of the man who will be suspected of killing him. Two Italians call on him with
- [Signor Ascanio](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/signor_ascanio.md): An Italian man involved in the Count Foscatini case.
- [Mr. Roger Havering](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/mr_roger_havering.md): Havering moves through the world of fashionable London, where reputations are made of furs, jewels, and the right introductions, and where a robbery at a grand hotel becomes a social event as much as a crime. He is the k
- [Mrs. Opalsen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/mrs_opalsen.md): A wealthy woman whose pearls are stolen at the Grand Metropolitan.
- [Mr. Opalsen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/mr_opalsen.md): The husband of Mrs. Opalsen, present during the jewel theft.
- [Mr. Bleibner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/mr_bleibner.md): Young Bleibner belongs to the moneyed transatlantic set that treats archaeology as spectacle, and his name surfaces in the orbit of a discovery that has already made men nervous. He is caught between the glamour of the e
- [Sir Guy Willard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/sir_guy_willard.md): A government official involved in the kidnapping of the Prime Minister.
- [Mr. Bernard Dodge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/mr_bernard_dodge.md): A man who seeks Poirot's help regarding a mysterious flat.
- [Mr. Lowen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/mr_lowen.md): A man involved in the mystery of Hunter's Lodge.
- [Major Norman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/major_norman.md): A guest at Hunter's Lodge during the murder.
- [Dr. Hawker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/dr_hawker.md): The local doctor called to Hunter's Lodge after the murder.
- [Miss Violet Marsh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/miss_violet_marsh.md): Violet Marsh dresses plainly but neatly and carries herself with the assurance of someone used to being taken seriously, which makes her uncle's final testament all the more galling. The will leaves her a puzzle rather t
- [Mr. Vavasour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/mr_vavasour.md): A solicitor involved in the case of the missing will.
- [Captain Daniels](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/captain_daniels.md): A suspect in the Marsdon Manor case.
- [Gregory B. Rolf](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/gregory_b_rolf.md): A film director involved with Mary Marvell.
- [Mr. Rolf](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/mr_rolf.md): Possibly a separate character or duplicate of Gregory Rolf.
- [Ed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/ed.md): A minor character mentioned in the stories.
- [Shaw](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/shaw.md): A minor character mentioned in the stories.

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