# Terror Keep — Character guide

> Key figures in Terror Keep by Edgar Wallace.

- [J. G. Reeder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/terror_keep_se/characters/j_g_reeder.md): Reeder is the quiet official the underworld both fears and underestimates, summoned to Larmes Keep where nothing is quite what it seems. When a shrieking man is found stabbed behind a bolted door, Reeder's composure neve
- [Margaret Belman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/terror_keep_se/characters/margaret_belman.md): Margaret rides the branch line to Siltbury to interview for a six-hundred-a-year job she knows she is unsuited for, half out of pride and half out of pique at Reeder's cheerful indifference to her leaving. A persistent I
- [Mr. Daver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/terror_keep_se/characters/mr_daver.md): Daver runs the house and its staff with the fussy authority of a man who knows he is watched, and he answers to someone above him whose name he will not say. When a murderous blade is pulled from the wall, his voice fail
- [Mr. Ravini](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/terror_keep_se/characters/mr_ravini.md): Ravini belongs to the shadowy world that converges on the house, and his reappearance there detonates old loyalties Olga has kept buried since childhood. He meant everything to her once; to him she had passed entirely fr
- [Olga Crewe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/terror_keep_se/characters/olga_crewe.md): Olga listens patiently while old John Flack spins his golden visions of her marriage and her white-marble house, answering yes, Father, in a voice that has gone flat. She is the object of a madman's fierce, transfiguring
- [Detective Brill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/terror_keep_se/characters/brill.md): Brill is the practical half of the partnership in the caves, crawling through the dark to find a ship's store of food, a battery lantern, and a case opener he wields as a weapon. He admires the madman's brain even as he 
- [John Flack](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/terror_keep_se/characters/john_flack.md): Flack exists in the novel first as a name that makes men uneasy and a newspaper portrait that surprises everyone with its gentleness — a thin face, grizzled moustache, intelligent eyes suggesting anything but the monster
- [Mrs. Burton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/terror_keep_se/characters/mrs_burton.md): A faded woman connected to the Flack family.
- [Chief Inspector Simpson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/terror_keep_se/characters/chief_inspector_simpson.md): A senior police officer overseeing the case.
- [Detective Gray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/terror_keep_se/characters/detective_gray.md): A police detective assisting in the investigation.
- [Lew Steyne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/terror_keep_se/characters/lew_steyne.md): A criminal associate with a role in the plot.
- [Police Officer Dyer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/terror_keep_se/characters/police_officer_dyer.md): A uniformed officer on duty at Terror Keep.
- [Big Bill Gordon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/terror_keep_se/characters/big_bill_gordon.md): A large and menacing figure in the criminal world.

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