# The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective — Character guide

> Key figures in The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis.

- [Loveday Brooke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/loveday_brooke.md): Loveday Brooke works cases for Ebenezer Dyer's agency, moving through country houses and railway stations with a portmanteau and an unshakeable habit of noticing what others overlook. She treats burglars as imaginative p
- [Mr. Dyer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/mr_dyer.md): Mr. Dyer runs the agency where Loveday Brooke works, introducing her to anxious clients like Major Druce and relaying the tangled family histories that fuel her investigations. He is a practical, slightly old-fashioned m
- [Mr. Hawke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/mr_hawke.md): Mr. Hawke is the master of a house where a nine-hundred-pound necklace has disappeared, and he wants the police called in—only to find his wife and Miss Monroe offering a hundred reasons why he shouldn't. He is a man who
- [Harry Craven](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/harry_craven.md): Harry Craven is the son of a scholarly, absent-minded philologist at Troyte's Hill, a young man who has been at loggerheads with the domineering old servant Sandy since boyhood. He came home from Oxford on the verge of d
- [The Major](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/the_major.md): Major Druce is a well-turned-out young officer who brings Loveday into his mother's cosmopolitan Portland Place reception, where servants and guests represent a dozen nationalities. He speaks of the missing Mdlle. Cunier
- [Miss Monroe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/miss_monroe.md): Miss Monroe arrives in England from Peking carrying a necklace valued at over nine hundred pounds, but she resists her father's request to deposit it at the bank and refuses to call in the police when it disappears. She 
- [Richard Golding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/richard_golding.md): Golding is the wealthy Langford Hall widower whose half-Australian, half-Italian daughter Irené has disappeared just as his second marriage approaches. He gave her a generous allowance but demanded no accounts of it, so 
- [Griffiths](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/griffiths.md): Griffiths belongs to the professional network of inspectors and detectives who hand cases to Loveday and then watch, half-skeptical, as she outthinks them. His world is procedure, jurisdiction, and the cautious plural pr
- [Lena](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/lena.md): A woman connected to a case, possibly a victim or suspect.
- [Mr. Clampe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/mr_clampe.md): A character involved in one of the investigations.
- [Mrs. Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/mrs_brown.md): A character appearing in one of the stories.
- [Maria Lisle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/maria_lisle.md): A woman whose story is part of a mystery.
- [René](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/rene.md): A character in one of the tales, possibly a victim.
- [George White](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/george_white.md): A character in a case, possibly a suspect.
- [Sir George Monroe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/sir_george_monroe.md): A baronet connected to Miss Monroe's case.
- [Alexander Henderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/alexander_henderson.md): An older man appearing in one of the stories.
- [Bates](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/bates.md): A character in a case, possibly a servant or witness.
- [Pierre Lebrun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/pierre_lebrun.md): A French character in one of the mysteries.
- [Inspector Gunning](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/inspector_gunning.md): A police inspector in one of the cases.
- [Lucie Cunier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/lucie_cunier.md): A French woman in one of the tales.

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