# Miss Dewsnep — The D’Arblay Mystery character guide

> Miss Dewsnep in The D’Arblay Mystery by R. Austin Freeman.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0005-vi-marion-d-arblay-at-home

## Snapshot

An elderly woman whose knowledge of the D'Arblay family's buried secrets makes her a quiet but dangerous keeper of the past.

## Who they are

Miss Dewsnep moves through the D'Arblay circle with the authority of long acquaintance, someone who remembers what the family would rather forget. Her knowledge of old scandals and hidden arrangements gives her a leverage that sits uneasily beside her respectable manner, and the investigation's early progress depends on prising loose what she knows. She matters because the case's middle stretch turns on family history that only a few insiders, Miss Dewsnep among them, can confirm or conceal.

## In the story

### [Simon Bendelow, Deceased](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_d_arblay_mystery_se/chapters/viii-simon-bendelow-deceased)

Witness to the will; present at the house and discusses cremation with Mrs. Morris.

### [A Chapter of Surprises](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_d_arblay_mystery_se/chapters/xvii-a-chapter-of-surprises)

Witness to Bendelow's will; identifies the waxwork as Bendelow despite having seen him cremated.

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