# Antonio Stalletti — The Door with Seven Locks character guide > Antonio Stalletti in The Door with Seven Locks by Edgar Wallace. **Role:** supporting **Also known as:** Stalletti, Mr. Stalletti, Dr. Stalletti, Dr. Antonio Stalletti, Professor Stalletti **First appearance:** 0003-ii ## Snapshot Author of New Thoughts on Constructive Biology and a police-noted vivisectionist, Stalletti keeps a Sussex address called Gallows Cottage that is far creepier than his theories about nuts and wild woods. ## Who they are 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 beneath notice. His blend of crank biology and legal trouble makes him the story's first real question mark, and the address he leaves behind — Gallows Cottage, Sussex — pulls Dick Martin out of routine detective work and toward the locked door that gives the book its title. ## Relationships ### [Dick Martin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/dick_martin) _rivalry_ Antonio Stalletti is a criminal adversary of Dick Martin, opposing him in the investigation. ### [Inspector Sneed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/inspector_sneed) _rivalry_ Antonio Stalletti is a criminal pursued by Inspector Sneed, creating an adversarial dynamic. ### [Lord Selford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/lord_selford) _professional_ Antonio Stalletti and Lord Selford are criminal associates, working together in illicit activities. ### [Dick Martin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/dick_martin) _rivalry_ Antonio Stalletti is a criminal adversary of Dick Martin, opposing him in the investigation. ### [Inspector Sneed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/inspector_sneed) _rivalry_ Antonio Stalletti is a criminal pursued by Inspector Sneed, creating an adversarial dynamic. ### [Inspector Sneed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/inspector_sneed) _rivalry_ Antonio Stalletti is a criminal pursued by Inspector Sneed, creating an adversarial dynamic. ### [Dick Martin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/dick_martin) _rivalry_ Antonio Stalletti is a criminal adversary of Dick Martin, opposing him in the investigation. ### [Lord Selford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/lord_selford) _professional_ Antonio Stalletti and Lord Selford are criminal associates, working together in illicit activities. ## In the story ### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/chapters/ii) An Italian doctor and author of 'New Thoughts on Constructive Biology'; known to the police for vivisection-related offenses and a suspect in the book theft. ### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/chapters/iii) Bearded, foreign-accented doctor living in a mean cottage on Gallows Hill; admits to taking a library book without permission. ### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/chapters/ix) Encountered at his house; sells petrol to Dick and is linked to the attack. ### [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/chapters/x) Receives Cody at Gallows Cottage; discusses the failed attempt on the pursuer and hints at Lew Pheeney's death. ### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/chapters/xi) Referred to as the owner of the pocketbook and key; described as a brilliant but peculiar pathologist who leased Gallows Cottage on Cody's recommendation. ### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/chapters/xiii) Identified by Sneed as the nearly naked attacker; known for his experiments to create primitive humans. ### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/chapters/xvi) Receives the police calmly, shows them around, and after they leave, tends to his hidden creatures. ### [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/chapters/xxiii) Mentioned in a letter and as a witness to a marriage, connecting him to the Selford affair. ### [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/chapters/xxiv) Implied presence: the hand that grips Sybil's in the tomb is likely Stalletti's. ### [XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/chapters/xxv) Found in the tomb working on the door with seven locks; attempts to hypnotize Sybil and force her to take red pellets. ### [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/chapters/xxvii) Flees Gallows Hill; seen speeding toward London, agitated and talking to himself. ### [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/chapters/xxviii) Feared by Havelock and Sybil; believed to have influence over Lord Selford; treated Lord Selford for alcoholism. ### [XXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/chapters/xxix) Appears in the clearing with a whip and a weapon, commands the two giants, and flees in a car that crashes into the quarry. ### [XXXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/chapters/xxxi) Mentioned as having been pulled from the lake; his key is among the seven. ### [XXXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/chapters/xxxii) Proposed the hypnotic identity destruction experiment; present at Lord Selford's death. ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters/antonio_stalletti - Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se - All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_door_with_seven_locks_se/characters