# Harry Craven — The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective character guide

> Harry Craven in The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Master Harry, young Mr. Craven, Mr. Craven, Mr. Harry Craven, Harry, young Craven

**First appearance:** 0000-the-black-bag-left-on-a-doorstep

## Snapshot

A hot-tempered Oxford man who threatened the family servant's life, then conveniently developed typhoid fever the day after a murder.

## Who they are

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 delirium tremens, quarrelled violently with Sandy in front of witnesses, and then fell ill with typhoid the day after the murder. His suspicious illness and his history of threats make him the obvious suspect, but his father's absorption in philology and the family's strained finances suggest deeper tensions beneath the surface.

## Relationships

### [Loveday Brooke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/loveday_brooke)

_romantic_

Harry Craven shows a persistent romantic interest in Loveday, though she remains professionally focused.

### [Alexander Henderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/alexander_henderson)

_rivalry_

Alexander Henderson and Harry Craven are rivals, possibly over a case or a romantic interest.

### [Loveday Brooke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/loveday_brooke)

_romantic_

Harry Craven shows a persistent romantic interest in Loveday, though she remains professionally focused.

### [Loveday Brooke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/loveday_brooke)

_romantic_

Harry Craven shows a persistent romantic interest in Loveday, though she remains professionally focused.

### [Alexander Henderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/characters/alexander_henderson)

_rivalry_

Alexander Henderson and Harry Craven are rivals, possibly over a case or a romantic interest.

## In the story

### [The Murder at Troyte’s Hill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_experiences_of_loveday_brooke_lady_detective_se/chapters/the-murder-at-troyte-s-hill)

The son of the house, suspected by Griffiths, supposedly ill with typhoid.

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