# The Clue of the New Pin — Character guide

> Key figures in The Clue of the New Pin by Edgar Wallace.

- [Tab Holland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_clue_of_the_new_pin_se/characters/tab_holland.md): Tab Holland moves between Fleet Street and Hertford, close enough to the Trasmere case to be useful and smitten enough with Ursula Ardfern to be reckless. When she asks him to quietly sell her jewels and give the money a
- [Rex Lander](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_clue_of_the_new_pin_se/characters/rex_lander.md): Rex Lander drifts through the case as the charming heir, quick to congratulate Tab on winning Ursula and quicker to insist he isn't hurt. His alibi is Rome; his sapphire ring was bought near Doughty Street, and a Chinese
- [Ursula Ardfern](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_clue_of_the_new_pin_se/characters/ursula_ardfern.md): Ursula Ardfern lives outside Hertford in a house with a Chinese garden, pale and thinner than when Tab first saw her, and speaks of money with the weariness of someone who has had too much of it. She wants her Trasmere j
- [Inspector Carver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_clue_of_the_new_pin_se/characters/carver.md): Inspector Carver moves through the case with the patience of a man who has learned not to show his hand. He lets a nervous visitor talk for three hours and tells no one; he sits with Yeh Ling over cigars and asks for doc
- [Yeh Ling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_clue_of_the_new_pin_se/characters/yeh_ling.md): Yeh Ling is a successful Chinaman in the restaurant trade, monosyllabic with reporters and unhurried with police, who keeps a safe of Trasmere's papers and refuses to hand over one of them. He visits opium dens in Reed S
- [Jesse Trasmere](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_clue_of_the_new_pin_se/characters/jesse_trasmere.md): Jesse Trasmere lives by ritual: up at two, out at six-thirty with an umbrella and a black bag, home at eight-thirty, coffee at ten, the valet's door locked behind him. He bought his furniture secondhand and boasts of the
- [Mr. Stott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_clue_of_the_new_pin_se/characters/mr_stott.md): Mr. Stott is the excitable householder next door to Mayfield, forever spoiling for a fight and nostalgic about the days when men settled things with their fists. His bluster collides with real danger when he stumbles int
- [Walters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_clue_of_the_new_pin_se/characters/walters.md): Walters hovers at the edges of the Trasmere case as the man everyone wants to be guilty, disliked on sight by Tab and conveniently implicated by his own admission of theft. Yet the deeper the inquiry goes, the less his g
- [Wellington Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_clue_of_the_new_pin_se/characters/wellington_brown.md): Wellington Brown belongs to the shadowy history of the Trasmere fortune, a figure whose past connection to the family draws him back into the house at the worst possible moment. His murder inside a locked, lightless vaul
- [Eline Simpson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_clue_of_the_new_pin_se/characters/eline_simpson.md): A young woman with a romantic link to one of the suspects.
- [Jacques](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_clue_of_the_new_pin_se/characters/jacques.md): An elderly servant in the Trasmere household.

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