# The Little Nugget — Character guide

> Key figures in The Little Nugget by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Smooth Sam Fisher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/smooth_sam_fisher.md): Among the professional kidnappers circling Ogden Ford, Sam Fisher is the one the hotel detective White genuinely admires — a man with brains who can use them, and who has chased the Nugget before without success. Buck Ma
- [Audrey Blake](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/audrey_blake.md): Audrey is the ghost in Peter's past: an engagement broken off so abruptly that he vanished from his friends' lives for three years, and a name he has never spoken since. When she turns up at Sanstead, the old pull return
- [Peter Burns](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/peter_burns.md): Peter Burns arrives at Sanstead posing as a master while secretly engaged to Cynthia Drassilis and privately haunted by Audrey Blake, the woman he once nearly married. His assignment is to keep the Little Nugget safe fro
- [Cynthia Drassilis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/cynthia_drassilis.md): Cynthia is largely offstage but never absent: her letter to Peter, and her evident love for him, sit in his pocket and his conscience throughout his time at Sanstead. When Audrey learns of the engagement, it changes ever
- [Buck MacGinnis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/buck_macginnis.md): Buck is the blunt instrument of the kidnapping world — no brains, no patience, just a Browning pistol, a gang of look-alike toughs, and a grudge against anyone who gets between him and Ogden Ford. His comic misidentifica
- [Mr. Arnold Abney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/arnold_abney.md): Mr. Abney presides over Sanstead with the solemn self-importance of a schoolmaster who believes his school is above the vulgarities of the world outside. That belief is tested when professional criminals, a disguised det
- [Ogden Ford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/ogden_ford.md): Ogden is the prize everyone in the story is maneuvering to possess: his mother keeps a framed oil-painting of him in her hotel suite and gazes at it hungrily, while kidnappers have already nicknamed him 'the Little Nugge
- [White](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/white.md): A servant or staff member at the school, involved in the unfolding events.
- [Mrs. Elmer Ford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/mrs_elmer_ford.md): Mrs. Elmer Ford is a wealthy New Yorker whose hard, imperious manner softens only before her son's portrait; she paces her hotel suite like a caged tigress, waiting for word of him. Convinced her financier husband's worl
- [The Little Nugget](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/the_little_nugget.md): A nickname for Ogden Ford, referring to his value as a kidnapping target.
- [Lord Mountry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/lord_mountry.md): A nobleman who becomes involved in the events at the school.
- [Glossop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/glossop.md): A teacher or staff member at Sanstead School.
- [Mrs. Drassilis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/mrs_drassilis.md): Cynthia's mother, a presence at the school.
- [Mennick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/mennick.md): A detective or investigator involved in the case.
- [Mrs. Sheridan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/mrs_sheridan.md): A woman connected to the school or the Ford family.
- [Reggie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/reggie.md): A young man at the school, possibly a student or teacher.
- [Augustus Beckford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/augustus_beckford.md): A character mentioned in connection with the school or plot.
- [Mrs. Attwell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_little_nugget_se/characters/mrs_attwell.md): A woman connected to the school or household staff.

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