# The Avenger — Character guide

> Key figures in The Avenger by Edgar Wallace.

- [Mike Brixan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_avenger_se/characters/mike_brixan.md): Mike Brixan moves between two worlds: the colonial past that earned him the nickname 'the Headhunter' and the polite society of Chichester, where a murderer is quietly at work. He is cool under pressure and quick to read
- [Stella Mendoza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_avenger_se/characters/stella_mendoza.md): Stella Mendoza has clawed her way to leading lady status on Jack Knebworth's lot, and she has no intention of surrendering it to a newcomer. When she confronts Adele Leamington with a handful of banknotes and a story abo
- [Sir Gregory Penne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_avenger_se/characters/sir_gregory_penne.md): Sir Gregory Penne presides over Griff Towers, a bleak house filled with stuffed tigers and three-hundred-year-old blades he keeps razor-sharp for parlour tricks. He speaks of murder as a hypothetical, watches his own wor
- [Jack Knebworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_avenger_se/characters/jack_knebworth.md): Jack Knebworth runs his modest studio with an iron pragmatism — he would sacrifice any player, star or extra, if it strengthened the picture. Yet when Michael Brixan brings him news of Lawley Foss's murder, the old direc
- [Lawley Foss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_avenger_se/characters/lawley_foss.md): Lawley Foss hovers at the edges of Jack Knebworth's productions, a script-handler whose quiet presence masks a dangerous discovery. He recognised the handwriting of the so-called Headhunter and saw in it an opportunity f
- [Adele Leamington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_avenger_se/characters/adele_leamington.md): Adele Leamington arrives on Jack Knebworth's lot as an unknown, only to find herself the target of Stella Mendoza's jealousy and Sir Gregory Penne's unsettling attention. She is frightened but not timid — when Mendoza tr
- [Sampson Longvale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_avenger_se/characters/sampson_longvale.md): An older gentleman who makes a crucial call early in the story.
- [Reggie Connolly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_avenger_se/characters/reggie_connolly.md): A disgruntled character with a possible grudge against others.
- [Bhag](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_avenger_se/characters/bhag.md): Bhag lives in his own tidy apartment, dines with the servants who both fear and worship him, and slips out nightly to roam the woods without ever harming a hen. He is Sir Gregory Penne's obedient shield, gentle at a soft
- [Major George Staines](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_avenger_se/characters/major_george_staines.md): A military man involved in the later investigation.
- [Detective Inspector Lyle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_avenger_se/characters/detective_inspector_lyle.md): A police officer from Scotland Yard working on the case.
- [Francis Elmer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_avenger_se/characters/francis_elmer.md): A man who meets an unfortunate fate early in the story.

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