# The Case with Nine Solutions — Character guide

> Key figures in The Case with Nine Solutions by J. J. Connington.

- [Sir Clinton Driffield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_with_nine_solutions_se/characters/sir_clinton_driffield.md): A Chief Constable who'd rather follow a devious clue than a straight one, he reads crimes the way other men read chessboards — several moves ahead.
- [Dr. Trevor Markfield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_with_nine_solutions_se/characters/dr_trevor_markfield.md): Markfield moves easily between the laboratory, the Institute, and the Silverdales' social orbit, which makes him useful to the investigation and hard to read. He is caustic about marriage and women, and his reluctance to
- [Inspector Flamborough](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_with_nine_solutions_se/characters/inspector_flamborough.md): Flamborough is the plodding, skeptical counterweight to Sir Clinton's leaps of intuition, and he resents being dragged up the Lizardbridge Road on what looks like a wild goose chase. He is thorough with facts, wary of th
- [Dr. Ringwood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_with_nine_solutions_se/characters/dr_ringwood.md): Ringwood is the physician Sir Clinton recruits for the drive out to the bungalow, a practical man who admits he saw nothing of the house the night before because the fog hid everything. He listens to Markfield's gossip a
- [Silverdale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_with_nine_solutions_se/characters/silverdale.md): Silverdale is an alkaloid specialist at the Institute, respected in his field but privately miserable in a marriage where husband and wife have agreed to take separate roads. He has turned toward Avice Deepcar while Yvon
- [Hassendean](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_with_nine_solutions_se/characters/hassendean.md): Hassendean is the younger man Yvonne Silverdale escorts everywhere, advertising a conquest that Markfield suspects is mostly her sport. He cuts a callow figure — a live-your-own-life type with, in Markfield's scornful ph
- [Whalley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_with_nine_solutions_se/characters/whalley.md): Whalley is the unseen watcher whose careful, mercenary observations supply the investigation with its most damning testimony. He trails a man and a woman to a bungalow, notes the car's number for future leverage, and pee
- [Yvonne Silverdale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_with_nine_solutions_se/characters/yvonne_silverdale.md): Yvonne is trapped between a husband she no longer wants and a lover, Markfield, with whom she has conducted a careful, exhausting affair for three years. A £12,000 legacy briefly seemed to offer them an escape through di
- [Avice Deepcar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_with_nine_solutions_se/characters/avice_deepcar.md): A young woman connected to the Silverdale household.
- [Miss Hailsham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_with_nine_solutions_se/characters/miss_hailsham.md): A woman whose testimony provides important clues.
- [Mr. Renard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_with_nine_solutions_se/characters/mr_renard.md): A mysterious figure with possible ties to the crimes.
- [Justice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_with_nine_solutions_se/characters/justice.md): A legal figure involved in the later stages of the investigation.
- [Ronald Hassendean](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_with_nine_solutions_se/characters/ronald_hassendean.md): A member of the Hassendean family with a role in the plot.
- [Spratton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_with_nine_solutions_se/characters/spratton.md): A minor character who appears in connection with the investigation.
- [The Chief Constable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_case_with_nine_solutions_se/characters/the_chief_constable.md): The senior police officer overseeing the investigation.

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