# The Four Just Men — Character guide

> Key figures in The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace.

- [Sir Philip Ramon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_just_men_se/characters/sir_philip_ramon.md): Sir Philip Ramon is the Minister of the Crown whose extradition measure has drawn the Four Just Men's ultimatum, and he meets it not with panic but with a cold, resentful resolve to carry the bill through and vindicate t
- [Billy Marks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_just_men_se/characters/billy_marks.md): Billy Marks works the trams and crowds of a London gripped by Four Just Men fever, lifting purses and watches with practiced ease until a detective named Falmouth catches his arm and turns him informer. Caught between th
- [Miguel Thery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_just_men_se/characters/miguel_thery.md): Thery is the one member of the quartet whose record the police can actually read: a thickset Spaniard from Jerez, aliases Saimont and Le Chico, a white scar on his cheek and an old knife wound on his body, circulated in 
- [George Manfred](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_just_men_se/characters/george_manfred.md): Manfred is the mind of the Four Just Men—cultivated, ironic, at ease in evening dress and expensive restaurants while orchestrating a killing that has all London talking. He can quote Brutus and De Quincey in defense of 
- [Poiccart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_just_men_se/characters/poiccart.md): Poiccart moves through the plot with the serenity of a man who has already made peace with his conscience, wearing the silken button of the Legion d'Honneur while calmly discussing murder as an instrument of justice. Whe
- [Leon Gonsalez](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_just_men_se/characters/leon_gonsalez.md): Gonsalez is the quartet's volatile artist—his hands never still, his speech tumbling out in breathless self-defense whenever the conversation turns to the Barcelona bomb he reluctantly enabled. He argues for clean, almos
- [Detective Superintendent Falmouth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_just_men_se/characters/detective_superintendent_falmouth.md): Falmouth commands the official investigation into the Four Just Men, coordinating cable traffic across Europe and deploying men to protect Sir Philip Ramon. His authority is constantly undercut by the killers' uncanny ab
- [Mr. Howard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_just_men_se/characters/mr_howard.md): Howard moves between Fleet Street and the police, trading information with Falmouth and watching the official manhunt with a journalist's skeptical eye. His access to the editor's inner circle puts him near the strangest
- [Welby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_just_men_se/characters/welby.md): Welby works the case alongside Falmouth and the newspaper editor, bringing Holmesian enthusiasm to crime scenes where the real clues refuse to cooperate. He is earnest, slightly defensive about his reading habits, and pa
- [Judge Anderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_just_men_se/characters/judge_anderson.md): The judge presiding over the legal proceedings related to the case.
- [Harry Moss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_just_men_se/characters/harry_moss.md): A criminal associate of Billy Marks.
- [Detective Jackson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_just_men_se/characters/detective_jackson.md): A detective working under Falmouth.

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