# The Cask — Character guide

> Key figures in The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts.

- [Mr. Georges La Touche](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/mr_georges_la_touche.md): La Touche works the margins of the investigation, paying porters for descriptions and staking his dwindling funds on hunches the official police overlook. His restless night produces the insight that the reward notices h
- [Mr. Felix](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/mr_felix.md): Felix is the consignee whose name is stencilled on the cask, a designer with a housekeeper conveniently away on holiday when the body travelled. He produces envelopes to prove his identity, signs for the shipment, and di
- [M. Boirac](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/m_boirac.md): Boirac sits at the centre of the case's most obvious motive: a husband who may or may not have known his wife was leaving him for another man. The discovery of a matching cask unpacked in his study briefly hardens suspic
- [M. Lefarge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/m_lefarge.md): Lefarge is the steady, methodical half of the investigative pair, the one who remembers that the cask's weight was extraordinary and that the carter's description might be worth fifty francs. He is not afraid to challeng
- [Inspector Burnley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/inspector_burnley.md): Burnley is the official mind of the case, cautious with his suspicions and careful with his evidence, refusing to commit himself even to Felix on the walk to the Yard. He supervises the unpacking himself, sifting sawdust
- [Annette Boirac](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/annette_boirac.md): Annette is known to the reader first as a dress sold in February, then as a name on a hotel register, and only gradually as a woman with a life the detectives must reconstruct from fragments. Her marriage to Boirac, her 
- [Clifford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/clifford.md): The solicitor who takes on the suspected man's defence, drawn less by duty than by his private delight in the uncommon and bizarre.
- [Mr. Broughton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/mr_broughton.md): A shipping clerk with salt in his veins and romance in his head, he longs for far-off ports while tallying wine casks in a London hold.
- [Dr. William Martin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/dr_william_martin.md): A medical professional who examines the body.
- [M. Le Gautier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/m_le_gautier.md): A French contact or suspect in the investigation.
- [Mr. Avery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/mr_avery.md): A minor character who provides information.
- [Constable Walker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/constable_walker.md): A police constable assisting Burnley.
- [François](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/francois.md): A servant or employee in the Boirac household.
- [Pierre Bonchose](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/pierre_bonchose.md): A witness or minor figure in the case.
- [Mr. Harkness](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/mr_harkness.md): A minor character who appears in the investigation.
- [Watty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/watty.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or worker.
- [M. Chauvet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/m_chauvet.md): A French character involved in the plot.
- [Jean Dubois](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/jean_dubois.md): A minor French character.
- [M. Mallet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/m_mallet.md): A minor French character.
- [Lucius Heppenstall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/lucius_heppenstall.md): A minor character, possibly a friend or associate.
- [M. Dumarchez](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/m_dumarchez.md): A minor French character.
- [Henri François](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/henri_francois.md): A minor character, possibly a servant.
- [Suzanne Lemaître](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/suzanne_lemaitre.md): A minor female character.
- [M. Paul Thévenet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/m_paul_thevenet.md): A minor French character.
- [Mrs. Bridget Murphy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/mrs_bridget_murphy.md): A minor character, possibly a housekeeper.
- [Sergeant Hastings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/sergeant_hastings.md): A police sergeant assisting the investigation.
- [Sergeant Kelvin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cask_se/characters/sergeant_kelvin.md): A police sergeant.

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