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The Charing Cross Mystery · Character

Hudson

A minor character in the narrative.

minor

First appearance: i the last train east

Hudson shows up with force in The Police Return. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Former hall-porter at the White Bear, now keeps a saloon-bar; mentioned as someone who remembers Mrs.
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In The Police Return: Former hall-porter at the White Bear, now keeps a saloon-bar; mentioned as someone who remembers Mrs.

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Character Web

7 connections

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MMMr. MalladaleMWMrs. WhittinghamMHMr. HollisMHMr. HetherwickSJSir John River…HUHudson

Relationship types

  • Other

Character groups

  • Minor Narrative Appearances
  • Central Mystery Figures
  • Protagonist

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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

SetupAftermathClimax
  • Setup
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

This is the dramatic climax because Matherfield’s exclamation—“Then who on earth is that woman that I followed…

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See Hudson in i the last train east