# Homer Lynne — The Law of the Four Just Men character guide

> Homer Lynne in The Law of the Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Lynne, Lynne, the respectable Mr. Lynne

**First appearance:** 0004-the-man-who-hated-earthworms

## Snapshot

A respectable gentleman whose impeccable standing makes him either the Four's next target or their most useful ally—and the story keeps the question open.

## Who they are

Lynne moves in the same comfortable circles as the men who sit in judgment on others, and his respectability is precisely what makes him interesting to vigilantes who have learned that the law protects the well-dressed. He is not a prisoner in the dock, not a blackmailer named in open court, and not a racecourse thug—he is the harder case, the man whose guilt or innocence cannot be settled by a jury's verdict. His presence in the early chapters forces the Four, and the reader, to ask what justice looks like when the accused wears a clean collar and a good name.

## In the story

### [The Man Who Loved Music](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_law_of_the_four_just_men_se/chapters/the-man-who-loved-music)

A theatrical agent who sends isolated young women to South America; loves Tschaikovsky's 1812 Overture and is a public nuisance with his gramophone.

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