The Charing Cross Mystery · Character

Madame Listorelle

A tall, handsome woman with a flat in St. Mary's Mansions, rarely seen there, believed to be connected with the stage.

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Also known as Listorelle

First appearance: Alias Madame Listorelle

As a supporting figure in The Charing Cross Mystery, Madame Listorelle is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

Madame Listorelle is revealed to be the alias used by Lady Riversreade for her flat in Paddington.

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Madame Listorelle keeps a flat she seldom occupies, pays her rent punctually, and vanishes for long stretches, leaving a caretaker with little to report. Matherfield, having trailed a woman he took for Lady Riversreade to those very flats, seizes on the alias as proof of a double identity, while Hetherwick coolly notes the impossibility of one woman being in Surrey and Southampton at once. Her handwriting on a certain order later startles Lord Morradale, tying the elusive tenant to the case's central knot.

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

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

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Alias Madame Listorelle
Madame Listorelle is revealed to be the alias used by Lady Riversreade for her flat in Paddington.
Is It Blackmail?
Identified as the woman living in St. Mary's Mansions; believed to be an alias possibly used by Lady Riversreade.
XV: Revelations
Identified as Lady Riversreade's twin sister and the subject of the portrait Hannaford cut out.
XIX: The London Road
Kidnapped along with Miss Featherstone while crossing the park.
XX: Converging Tracks
Reported kidnapped along with Miss Featherstone; Lord Morradale suggests she was targeted for her jewel dealings.
The Order in Writing
Her flat at St. Mary's Mansions was entered by Baseverie using a forged note; her notepaper and envelopes are found in the flat.

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