# Simon — Character guide

> Key figures in Simon by J. Storer Clouston.

- [F. T. Carrington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/f_t_carrington.md): Carrington talks his way into Simon Rattar's office with a fishing story and a candid grin, then lays his cards on the table: he has been hired by unnamed London lawyers, on behalf of a client whose name he does not know
- [Simon Rattar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/simon_rattar.md): Rattar handles every legal affair in the district, including the tangled arrangements surrounding Cicely Farmond's parentage, and his three framed rules of life — no smoking, save a third, never ride when you can walk — 
- [Ned Cromarty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/ned_cromarty.md): Ned Cromarty is a man of action in a case built on thin suggestions and hearth brushes, and he matches wits with Rattar over broken table legs, dried mud, and Bisset's deductions, refusing to let a dashed thin theory pas
- [Cicely Farmond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/cicely_farmond.md): Lady Cromarty warns that no girl who uses her eyes so effectively is quite as simple as Sir Reginald believes, and Cicely proves it by walking into Simon Rattar's office and demanding to know who she is. She has guessed 
- [Mary MacLean](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/mary_maclean.md): Mary brings her master his breakfast and her unease with it: a figure slipping into the trees, a shaving cut where Silent Simon has never cut himself before, a hand that upsets the toast rack. Her Highland fidelity to th
- [James Bisset](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/james_bisset.md): Bisset moves behind the lunch chairs as the perfect silent servant, then reappears in the butler's sitting room with a sheet of note paper, two crosses marked A and B, and a theory about a broken table leg, dried mud, an
- [Sir Reginald Cromarty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/sir_reginald_cromarty.md): Sir Reginald is the wealthy, old-fashioned patriarch whose allowance to his heir Malcolm comes with patronising strings attached, and whose refusal to loosen them drives the young man toward desperate borrowing. His narr
- [Malcolm Cromarty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/malcolm_cromarty.md): Malcolm inherits the title and the estate but not the money or the nerve to manage either, and his cousin's death has left him heir to a baronetcy he can barely afford. He borrows from Simon Rattar, dodges Sir Reginald's
- [Lady Cromarty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/lady_cromarty.md): Lady Cromarty presides over Keldale with a monumental, tragic stillness that Cicely finds almost unnerving, and her decision to keep the girl on rather than let her leave is framed as company but feels like surveillance.
- [George Rattar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/george_rattar.md): George Rattar exists at the edges of his brother's upright, cautious world, a sibling whose presence complicates Simon's reputation for chilly probity. His actions carry consequences that reach into the Cromarty affair a
- [Miss Peterkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/miss_peterkin.md): A local woman who provides information and local color.
- [Mr. MacAlister](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/mr_macalister.md): A figure involved in the legal and procedural aspects of the story.
- [Lilian Cromarty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/lilian_cromarty.md): A member of the Cromarty family with a role in the domestic sphere.
- [Mr. Ison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/mr_ison.md): A not-too-observant servant or local who misses key details.
- [Superintendent Sutherland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/superintendent_sutherland.md): A police superintendent involved in the official investigation.
- [Janet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/janet.md): A servant or local woman mentioned in passing.

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