# Otto Schulz — The Cheyne Mystery character guide

> Otto Schulz in The Cheyne Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Schulz

**First appearance:** 0010-xi-otto-schulz-s-secret

## Snapshot

A dying German soldier in a hospital bed whose last confidences, overheard by a stranger, set the whole hunt in motion.

## Who they are

Schulz enters the story as a wounded man in the bed next to Dangle's, fading from a head injury while the man beside him listens. What he knows, and what he says as he weakens, becomes the seed of the letter, the tracing, and the disputed fortune that everyone else is chasing. He matters because he never appears in the present action, yet his deathbed words are the engine of the plot, and the moral question of what was owed to him shadows every bargain made over his secret.

## Relationships

### [Arnold Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cheyne_mystery_se/characters/arnold_price)

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Arnold Price and Otto Schulz are rivals or enemies, with frequent interactions suggesting conflict.

### [Arnold Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cheyne_mystery_se/characters/arnold_price)

_rivalry_

Arnold Price and Otto Schulz are rivals or enemies, with frequent interactions suggesting conflict.

### [Arnold Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cheyne_mystery_se/characters/arnold_price)

_rivalry_

Arnold Price and Otto Schulz are rivals or enemies, with frequent interactions suggesting conflict.

## In the story

### [XI: Otto Schulz's Secret](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cheyne_mystery_se/chapters/xi-otto-schulz-s-secret)

Schulz is revealed as the inventor of a valuable secret, and his widow is entitled to a share of the proceeds from the invention.

### [XIX: The Message of the Tracing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cheyne_mystery_se/chapters/xix-the-message-of-the-tracing)

The U-boat commander who sank the Silurian, created the cipher to hide the treasure location, and died before fully explaining it.

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