# Zaboleff — The Black Gang character guide

> Zaboleff in The Black Gang by H. C. McNeile.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Zaboleff

**First appearance:** 0003-iv-in-which-count-zadowa-gets-a-shock

## Snapshot

A shrewd, olive-skinned Russian whose piercing eyes and pointed beard make Waldock's clerks measure him like a boxer sizing up an opponent.

## Who they are

Zaboleff arrives late to a candlelit back-room rendezvous where six nervous men wait to hear why they were summoned. His foreign composure and the way the two Jewish conspirators study him mark him as no ordinary accomplice but a man carrying Peterson's authority. What he is about to explain will set the gang's next operation in motion.

## In the story

### [I: In Which Things Happen Near Barking Creek](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_gang_se/chapters/i-in-which-things-happen-near-barking-creek)

A captured criminal, described as a 'choice specimen,' who is taken by the vigilante after being searched and relieved of a bag of pearls and stones.

### [In Which Scotland Yard Sits Up and Takes Notice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_gang_se/chapters/ii-in-which-scotland-yard-sits-up-and-takes-notice)

Reported to be at the suspected house in Barking; later taken by the mysterious perpetrator.

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