The Club of Queer Trades · Character
Mr. Montmorency
A nervous client who brings the Grants a story about a vicar's visit that refuses to add up to anything ordinary.
supporting
Also known as Montmorency, P. Montmorency
First appearance: iii the awful reason of the vicar s visit
As a supporting figure in The Club of Queer Trades, Mr. Montmorency is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The house-agent visited by Keith, described as having a sinister appearance and engaging in suspicious plotting.
Montmorency arrives with the air of a man who has seen something he cannot explain and is not sure he wants to. His account of a clergyman's strange behaviour sets the brothers arguing before the facts are even in. He matters because his case is the first to show how a perfectly rational sequence of events can look, from the outside, exactly like a haunting.
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Character groups
- House Agent's Peculiarity
- Great Reputation Case
- Protagonist
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
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