The Charing Cross Mystery · Character

Dr. Cyprian Baseverie

A smooth-tongued, vaguely menacing visitor whose repeated calls on Lady Riversreade are pretext, not charity, and whose true business no one can name.

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Also known as Dr. Baseverie, Baseverie

First appearance: i the last train east

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Mysterious visitor who presents a printed card, is not in the medical directory, and causes Lady Riversreade distress.

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Dr. Cyprian Baseverie presents himself as a caller interested in the Home and its patients, but he never sees either; he sees only Lady Riversreade, and only behind closed doors. Rhona finds him florid, ingratiating, and distinctly unpleasant, and Major Penteney arranges a trap for him in the private office. His evasiveness, his unknown address, and his habit of appearing at Vivian's nightclub make him the case's most slippery and dangerous figure.

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X: The Mysterious Visitor
Mysterious visitor who presents a printed card, is not in the medical directory, and causes Lady Riversreade distress.
Alias Madame Listorelle
Baseverie is reported to have been seen at Vivian's in conversation with Lady Riversreade and earlier with Hannaford.
XIII: Who Was She?
Theorized by Matherfield to have been an accomplice of Mrs. Whittingham in the Sellithwaite fraud and to have warned her of danger.
Is It Blackmail?
Visits the Home expecting to see Lady Riversreade but is instead confronted by Major Penteney and expelled.
XVI: Still More
Identified as the go-between who approached Lady Riversreade for blackmail; suspected of being the gang's leader; evades surveillance in Dover.
XVIII: The Telegram
Record shows he was convicted of fraud and struck off the register; suspected of being Ambrose's partner.
The House in the Yard
Identified by the grocer as the other man using the hidden laboratory.
XXV: Dead!
Suspected by Robmore of poisoning Ambrose and escaping to Southampton under the alias Basing.
Waterloo
Spotted by Rhona at Waterloo station waiting for the Southampton train, under surveillance by Robmore's men.

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