# Dr. Cyprian Baseverie — The Charing Cross Mystery character guide

> Dr. Cyprian Baseverie in The Charing Cross Mystery by J. S. Fletcher.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Dr. Baseverie, Baseverie

**First appearance:** 0000-i-the-last-train-east

## Snapshot

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

## Who they are

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.

## In the story

### [X: The Mysterious Visitor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/xii-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?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/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?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/xiv-is-it-blackmail)

Visits the Home expecting to see Lady Riversreade but is instead confronted by Major Penteney and expelled.

### [XVI: Still More](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/xxiv-the-house-in-the-yard)

Identified by the grocer as the other man using the hidden laboratory.

### [XXV: Dead!](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/xxv-dead)

Suspected by Robmore of poisoning Ambrose and escaping to Southampton under the alias Basing.

### [Waterloo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/xxvi-waterloo)

Spotted by Rhona at Waterloo station waiting for the Southampton train, under surveillance by Robmore's men.

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