# Scarhaven Keep — Character guide

> Key figures in Scarhaven Keep by J. S. Fletcher.

- [Richard Copplestone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/richard_copplestone.md): Copplestone is an outsider with a dramatist's instinct for motive, which makes him the natural engine of the investigation into Bassett Oliver's disappearance. He notices what others miss — that the Squire's cousin and h
- [Peter Chatfield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/peter_chatfield.md): Chatfield is the real power at Scarhaven Keep; the nominal Squire defers to him, and he guards the ruins with locks, bolts, and hired men. He hates Audrey Greyle and warns her off with a bully's pleasure, sensing in Copp
- [Audrey Greyle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/audrey_greyle.md): Audrey lives in a threadbare cottage with her mother while her cousin occupies the great house, and she has made her peace with neither. She calls Chatfield a bad old man and means it, and she knows a hole in the Keep's 
- [Guy Vickers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/guy_vickers.md): Vickers has had business with Chatfield before and believes he has the measure of him, so he comes to the confrontation armed with the Bristol facts — the dead man, the false name on the tombstone. What he gets instead i
- [Zachary Spurge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/zachary_spurge.md): Spurge is a local with a theory of his own and the patience to work the wharves, public houses, and sail lofts until it pays off. He has faith in his own instincts where Copplestone has none, and he is proved right when 
- [Marston Greyle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/marston_greyle.md): Greyle holds the great house and its grounds while his cousin and her mother scrape by in a cottage, a disparity Copplestone cannot stop noticing. He claims never to have met Bassett Oliver, though Oliver said he knew a 
- [Bassett Oliver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/bassett_oliver.md): Bassett Oliver arrives at Scarhaven as a famous face among strangers, his presence alone enough to stir gossip and unease. His vanishing on the very afternoon he visits the Keep forces everyone around him—his brother, th
- [Addie Chatfield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/addie_chatfield.md): Addie Chatfield is the daughter of Peter Chatfield, the agent everyone at Scarhaven fears, and she knows far more about her father's dealings than she lets on. She arrives among the investigators with charm, nerve, and a
- [Mr. Gilling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/mr_gilling.md): Gilling works alongside Copplestone and Swallow, trading the glamour of the chase for patient tracking and careful reporting. He brings the investigator's temperament—methodical, wry, undeterred by dead ends—to a case th
- [Mr. Stafford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/mr_stafford.md): A solicitor involved in the legal affairs of the Oliver and Greyle families.
- [Valentine Greyle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/valentine_greyle.md): Mrs. Valentine Greyle lives in a cottage at Scarhaven with her daughter Audrey, scraping by on a few hundred pounds while the big house belongs to a cousin she cannot bear. Village gossip says the new Squire wants to mar
- [Sir Cresswell Oliver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/sir_cresswell_oliver.md): Sir Cresswell Oliver arrives at Petherton's chambers with a sailor's impatience for obfuscation, insisting the case be laid out in plain bearings. He suspects the man calling himself Marston Greyle is an impostor and tha
- [Captain Andrius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/captain_andrius.md): Captain of a yacht involved in the mysterious events off the Scarhaven coast.
- [Mrs. Wooler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/mrs_wooler.md): A housekeeper or local woman who assists with domestic matters.
- [Mr. Dennie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/mr_dennie.md): A curate or clergyman who provides local information and assistance.
- [Squire Greyle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/squire_greyle.md): The former head of the Greyle family, now deceased, referenced in the story.
- [Jim Spurge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/jim_spurge.md): A relative of Zachary Spurge, involved in local affairs.
- [Mrs. Salmon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/mrs_salmon.md): A local woman who provides lodging or services to visitors.
- [Mr. Rothwell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/scarhaven_keep_se/characters/mr_rothwell.md): A solicitor or legal figure involved in estate matters.

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