The Charing Cross Mystery · Character
Superintendent Hannaford
A former Sellithwaite police superintendent whose name shadows the case, remembered by the woman Hetherwick suspects may once have been Mrs. Whittingham.
supporting
Also known as Sellithwaite, Hannaford
First appearance: i the last train east
As a supporting figure in The Charing Cross Mystery, Superintendent Hannaford is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
His handwriting is identified on the ink formula; his murder is discussed as the central crime.
Years before the Charing Cross affair, Superintendent Hannaford policed Sellithwaite, and his granddaughter Rhona carries both his name and his connection to the Riversreade mystery. When Hetherwick wants someone planted inside Riversreade Court, he must send Rhona under her mother's name, Featherstone, precisely because Lady Riversreade would remember Hannaford. The old superintendent's history is the hinge on which Hetherwick's suspicions about identity and disguise turn.
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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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See Superintendent Hannaford in i the last train east