# The Door with Seven Locks — Character guide

> Key figures in The Door with Seven Locks by Edgar Wallace.

- [Dick Martin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/dick_martin.md): Dick Martin enters the Selford affair as a man who understands locks and liars alike, hired to trace a wandering lord but drawn instead to a stone door and a lawyer's evasions. He is quick with a pistol and quicker with 
- [Mr. Havelock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/mr_havelock.md): Arthur Havelock administers the Selford estate with an easy smile and a lawyer's command of every document the late lord left behind. He insists the sealed cell is a mystery to him too, yet he has never once asked permis
- [Sybil Lansdown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/sybil_lansdown.md): Sybil Lansdown stands next in law to a fortune she has never touched, and it is her request that first opens the Sellforde tomb to Dick Martin's lantern. She is brave enough to walk into the storm and frightened enough t
- [Lord Selford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/lord_selford.md): Lord Selford exists in the novel mostly as handwriting, a birthmark, and a lisp — a thin-faced man who writes faithfully to his solicitor and never quite comes home. Havelock has seen him at intervals and swears the lett
- [Thomas Cawler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/thomas_cawler.md): Tom Cawler is the kind of man who shows up on a hotel balcony at the wrong moment and gets snapped by a press photographer, which is how Dick Martin learns he was being led on a fool's errand. He is a messenger, a decoy,
- [Inspector Sneed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/inspector_sneed.md): Sneed arrives in the story as a figure of almost insulting calm, watching flames roar from barred windows while Havelock screams for the women inside. That apathy is a mask: the moment he knocks out his pipe, he becomes 
- [Antonio Stalletti](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/antonio_stalletti.md): Stalletti never appears in the library scene where his thin, diagram-crammed book goes missing, yet his name does all the work: the police know him, the secretary panicked, and the lady librarian waves the theft away as 
- [Bertram Cody](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/bertram_cody.md): Dick Martin visits Cody on business and leaves with more than he bargained for, having palmed the flat leather book from under the man's papers out of sheer devilment. Inside is a key almost identical to the one Sybil sh
- [Lew Pheeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/lew_pheeney.md): Pheeney's coerced work at the stone door — seven circular bosses, a carved skeleton on each pillar, a curse on whoever mocks — surfaces in Dick Martin's mind the moment he finally sees the thing for himself. Whatever Phe
- [Mrs. Bertram Cody](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/mrs_bertram_cody.md): The wife of Bertram Cody, involved in the household drama.
- [Mrs. Lansdown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/mrs_lansdown.md): Sybil Lansdown's mother, a concerned parent.
- [Slick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/slick.md): A shady character with underworld ties.
- [John Pierce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/john_pierce.md): A restless individual involved in the investigation.

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