# Mr. Philip Ridgeway — Poirot Investigates character guide

> Mr. Philip Ridgeway in Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Philip, Mr. Ridgeway, Ridgeway, Philip Ridgeway

**First appearance:** 0004-the-million-dollar-bond-robbery

## Snapshot

A bank man entrusted with a million dollars in bonds, and the first to feel the floor give way beneath him.

## Who they are

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 honor are suddenly on the line, and he must submit to Poirot's scrutiny to clear himself. He is the human cost of the case: a solid man made desperate by a theft that looks, at first, like his own failure.

## Relationships

### [Hercule Poirot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/hercule_poirot)

_professional_

Poirot investigates Mr. Philip Ridgeway as a suspect in a murder case involving Miss Mary Marvell.

### [Miss Mary Marvell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/miss_mary_marvell)

_romantic_

Miss Mary Marvell and Mr. Philip Ridgeway are lovers, with Ridgeway being the prime suspect in her murder.

### [Hercule Poirot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/hercule_poirot)

_professional_

Poirot investigates Mr. Philip Ridgeway as a suspect in a murder case involving Miss Mary Marvell.

### [Miss Mary Marvell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/miss_mary_marvell)

_romantic_

Miss Mary Marvell and Mr. Philip Ridgeway are lovers, with Ridgeway being the prime suspect in her murder.

### [Hercule Poirot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/hercule_poirot)

_professional_

Poirot investigates Mr. Philip Ridgeway as a suspect in a murder case involving Miss Mary Marvell.

### [Miss Mary Marvell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/characters/miss_mary_marvell)

_romantic_

Miss Mary Marvell and Mr. Philip Ridgeway are lovers, with Ridgeway being the prime suspect in her murder.

## In the story

### [The Million Dollar Bond Robbery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poirot_investigates_se/chapters/the-million-dollar-bond-robbery)

The bank employee in charge of the stolen bonds, engaged to Miss Farquhar, and a suspect in the case.

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